See other conspecific taxa:

• Vicia villosa (0 accessions)
• Vicia villosa subsp. eriocarpa (0 accessions)
• Vicia villosa subsp. pseudocracca (0 accessions)
• Vicia villosa subsp. villosa (0 accessions)
• Vicia villosa var. gore (0 accessions)

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations:

(≡ homotypic synonym, = heterotypic synonym, - autonym, I invalid designation)

• (=) Vicia dasycarpa Ten.
• (=) Vicia glabrescens (W. D. J. Koch) Heimerl
• Basionym: Vicia varia Host
• (≡) Vicia varia var. varia Host
• (=) Vicia villosa subsp. dasycarpa (Ten.) Cavill.
• (=) Vicia villosa var. glabrescens W. D. J. Koch

Common names:

• winter vetch  (Source: Food Feed Crops US) - English
• woolly-pod vetch  (Source: Dict Econ Pl) - English
• kvarnvicker  (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish
• ou zhou tiao zi  (Source: F ChinaEng) - Transcribed Chinese
• gorošek šerstistoplodnyj  (Source: F Armenia) - Transliterated Russian

Economic Importance:

• Animal food: fodder (fide Enneking 1995; W. L. Graves, pers. comm.) forage (fide Enneking 1995; W. L. Graves, pers. comm.)
• Environmental:
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals (fide Kellerman et al.; Enneking 29. 1995, as V. villosa subsp. dasycarpa)

Distributional Range:

Native

Africa

• MACARONESIA: Spain [Canarias]
• NORTHERN AFRICA: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia

Asia-Temperate

• WESTERN ASIA: Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
• CAUCASUS: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russian Federation [Checheno-Ingushetia, Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachay-Cherkessia, North Ossetia, Krasnodar, Stavropol]

Europe

• MIDDLE EUROPE: Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Switzerland
• EASTERN EUROPE: Lithuania, Ukraine (incl. Krym)
• SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Albania, Bulgaria, Greece (incl. Crete), Italy (incl. Sardinia, Sicily), Romania
• SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE: France (incl. Corsica), Portugal, Spain (incl. Baleares)


Cultivated (also cult.)

Naturalized (widely natzd. elsewhere)

References:

1. Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource) URL: www.skud.info
2. Allkin, R. et al. 1986. Names and synonyms of species and subspecies in the Vicieae: issue 3. Vicieae Database Project 7:73.
3. Englert, J. M. et al. 1999-. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators
4. Enneking, D. 1995. The toxicity of Vicia species and their utilization as grain legumes. 4.
5. Eriksson, O. et al. 1979. Flora of Macaronesia: checklist of vascular plants, ed. 2.
6. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource). URL: http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Vicia+villosa+subsp.+varia&quantity=1 target='_blank'
7. Izquierdo Z., I. et al., eds. 2004. Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres
8. Kellerman, T. S. et al. 1988. Plant poisonings and mycotoxicoses of livestock in Southern Africa Note: poisonous
9. Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2
10. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
11. Raynaud, C. 1976. Monographie et iconographie du genre Vicia L. au Maroc. Bull. Inst. Sci. Univ. Mohammed V. 1:162.
12. Smythies, B. E. 1984-1986. Flora of Spain and the Balearic Islands: checklist of vascular plants. Englera 3:1-882.
13. Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964-1980. Flora europaea.
14. University of California Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. UC SAREP on-line cover crop database (on-line resource).
15. Uphof, J. C. T. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants, ed. 2.
16. Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
17. Yakovlev, G. P. et al. 1996. Legumes of Northern Eurasia Note: = Vicia varia Host

Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://gringlobal.iita.org/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=100245. Accessed 29 June 2024.