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Taxon:  Vicia sativa L.



Summary
Genus:
Vicia
Subgenus:
Vicia
Section:
Vicia
Family:
Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae)
Subfamily:
Faboideae
Tribe:
Fabeae
Nomen number:
300667
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 2:736. 1753
Verified:
08/26/1986 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
1121 (1121  active, 785  available) in National Plant Germplasm System.  (Map it)
Other conspecific taxa
Vicia sativa L. subsp. amphicarpa (L.) Batt. (40 active accession[s])
Vicia sativa L. subsp. cordata (Wulfen ex Hoppe) Batt. (12 active accession[s])
Vicia sativa L. subsp. macrocarpa (Moris) Arcang. (18 active accession[s])
Vicia sativa L. subsp. nigra (L.) Ehrh. (64 active accession[s])
Vicia sativa L. subsp. sativa (114 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Vicia globosa Retz.
Vicia maculata C. Presl
Vicia sativa L. var. maculata (C. Presl) Burnat
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Common names
French
vesce cultivée –
Japanese Rōmaji
yahazu-endō –
Swedish
fodervicker –
Transcribed Korean
salgalkwi –
Distribution
Native
Africa
  • EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya
  • MACARONESIA: Spain [Canary Islands], Portugal [Madeira Islands]
  • NORTHERN AFRICA: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia
Asia-Temperate
  • ARABIAN PENINSULA: Oman, Saudi Arabia, Yemen
  • CAUCASUS: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russian Federation [Checheno-Ingushetia, Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachay-Cherkessia, Krasnodar, North Ossetia, Stavropol]
  • CHINA: China
  • EASTERN ASIA: Korea, Japan, Taiwan
  • MIDDLE ASIA: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
  • SIBERIA: Russian Federation-Western Siberia [Western Siberia], Russian Federation [Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, Kurgan, Novosibirsk, Sverdlovsk, Tomsk]
  • WESTERN ASIA: Afghanistan, Cyprus, Egypt [Sinai], Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
Asia-Tropical
  • INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan
Europe
  • EAST EUROPE: Belarus, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Moldova, Russian Federation [Arkhangelsk, Belgorod, Bryansk, Chuvashia, Ivanovo, Kaliningrad, Kaluga, Karelia, Kirov, Komi, Kostroma, Kursk, Leningrad, Lipetsk, Mari-El, Mordvinia, Moscow, Murmansk, Novgorod, Orel, Penza, Perm, Pskov, Rostov, Ryazan, Saratov, Smolensk, Tambov, Tatarstan, Tula, Udmurtia, Ulyanovsk, Vladimir, Volgograd, Vologda, Voronezh, Yaroslavl], Ukraine
  • MIDDLE EUROPE: Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland
  • NORTHERN EUROPE: Denmark, Finland, United Kingdom, Ireland, Norway, Sweden
  • SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Former Yugoslavia, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Malta, Romania
  • SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE: Spain, France, Portugal
Cultivated ()
Naturalized ()
Economic Uses
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2025. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://ausgenebank.agriculture.vic.gov.au/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=300667. Accessed 11 April 2025.

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