Pea Family - Vetches
Pea Family - Fabaceae
Large Yellow Vetch Vicia grandifloraNative from central and South-east Europe to Iran. An annual or biennial with calyx teeth all equal and shorter than the tube. Leaf tip apiculate.
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Hairy Yellow Vetch Vicia hybrida
Native to the Mediterranean Region, eastwards to Afghanistan. A scrambling annual with hairs on the back of the upper petal. Leaf tip apiculate.
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Yellow Vetch Vicia lutea
Native to the Mediterranean Region and eastern Europe, eastwards to Iran. A scrambling annual with smooth upper petals. Leaf tip acute.
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Black-eyed Vetch Vicia melanops
Native to Mediterranean Region from France to Turkey and the southern Balkan countries.
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Bithynian Vetch Vicia bithynica
Native from Macaronesia and western Europe, eastwards through the Mediterranean Region to Pakistan. An annual to 60cm, with solitary, bi-coloured flowers and strongly toothed leaf stipules. The leaves have 1-2 pairs of narrow leflets and branched tendrils.
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Cretan Vetch Vicia cretica
Native to Greece and the Aegean islands. A tiny species, often found scrambling through spiny vegetation where it avoids being grazed.
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Downy Vetch Vicia pubescens
Native to Macaronesia and throughout the Mediterranean Region. A small-flowered species, the flowers carried in small clusters on long peduncles.
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Common Vetch Vicia sativa ssp. sativa
Native throughout Europe, Asia and parts of northern and eastern Africa.
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Hairy-fruited Vetch Vicia eriocarpa
Native to the Central and Eastern Mediterranean, South-eastwards to the Arabian Peninsula. Formerly considered to be a form of Hairy Vetch and seemingly identifiable from Vicia villosa subsp. varia only by the hairy young pods (generally smooth in Hairy Vetch).
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Mani Hairy Vetch Vicia villosa ssp. maniatissa
Native and endemic to the central, southern peninsula of Peloponnese. A pale-flowered form with relatively broad leaflets.
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Equal-toothed Sainfoin Onobrychis aequidentata
Native to southern Europe, eastwards to Iran.
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Cockscomb Sainfoin Onobrychis caput-galli
Native throughout the Mediterranean Region, eastwards to Iran.
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Biserrula Biserrula pelecinus
Native to Macaronesia, through the Mediterranean Region to the Arabian Peninsula and East Africa.
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Lesser Horseshoe Vetch Hippocrepis ciliata
Native throughout the Mediterranean Region. Flowers on relatively long peduncles, in heads of 1-6; pedicels hairy, Blade of standard petal sharply broadening out from claw (not tapered). A single, gland-like dot in the angle between stipule and petiole. Seedpods straight or slightly curved, with open ends of 'horseshoes' on concave side.
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Hooked Milk-vetch Astragalus hamosus
Native to Macaronesia, through the Mediterranean Region to the Arabian Peninsula and Central Asia.
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Montpellier Milk-vetch Astragalus monspessulanus
(False Vetch) Native from North-west Africa, through southern and eastern Europe to Ukraine. Often in hilly or mountainous areas.
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Corky Milk-vetch Astragalus suberosus subsp. haarbachii
Native from the southern Balkans to Iran, with the subspecies haarbachii occurring in the European part of this range.
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