See other conspecific taxa:

• Vicia cracca subsp. cracca (0 accessions)
• Vicia cracca subsp. incana (0 accessions)

Common names:

• cow vetch  (Source: Pl Names) - English
• tufted vetch  (Source: BSBI) - English
• tufted vetch  (Source: ICAW) - English (Canada)
• vesce jargeau  (Source: ICAW) - French (Canada)
• cisirão  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• ervilhaca-dos-passarinhos  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• kråkvicker  (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish
• gorošek myšinyj  (Source: Mansf Ency) - Transliterated Russian

Economic Importance:

• Animal food: fodder
• Environmental:
• Weed: potential seed contaminant (fide Geigy Weed Tables. 1968)

Distributional Range:

Native

Asia-Temperate

• WESTERN ASIA: Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
• CAUCASUS: Russian Federation [Checheno-Ingushetia, Dagestan, Karachay-Cherkessia, North Ossetia, Krasnodar, Stavropol]
• SIBERIA: Russian Federation [Buryatia, Gorno-Altay, Khakassia, Tuva, Yakutia-Sakha, Altay, Krasnoyarsk, Evenk, Taymyr, Chelyabinsk, Chita, Aga Buryat, Irkutsk, Ust Orda Buryat, Kemerovo, Kurgan, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Sverdlovsk, Tomsk, Tyumen, Khanty-Mansi]
• MIDDLE ASIA: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan
• MONGOLIA: Mongolia
• CHINA: China (n.)
• EASTERN ASIA: Japan, [Hokkaidô, Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku] Korea, Taiwan (natzd.?)

Asia-Tropical

• INDO-CHINA: Vietnam (n.)

Europe

• NORTHERN EUROPE: Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Norway, Sweden
• MIDDLE EUROPE: Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland
• EASTERN EUROPE: Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russian Federation, [Bashkortostan, Chuvashia, Kalmykia, Karelia, Komi, Mari-El, Mordvinia, Tatarstan, Udmurtia, Arkhangelsk, Nenets, Astrakhan, Belgorod, Bryansk, Ivanovo, Kaliningrad, Kaluga, Kirov, Kostroma, Kursk, Leningrad, Lipetsk, Moscow, Murmansk, Novgorod, Orel, Orenburg, Penza, Perm, Komi-Permyak, Pskov, Rostov, Ryazan, Saratov, Smolensk, Tambov, Tula, Ulyanovsk, Vladimir, Volgograd, Vologda, Voronezh, Yaroslavl] Ukraine (incl. Krym)
• SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Albania, Bulgaria, Former Yugoslavia, Greece, Italy (incl. Sardinia, Sicily), Romania
• SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE: France (incl. Corsica), Portugal, Spain


Naturalized (natzd. elsewhere)

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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=300659. Accessed 29 September 2024.