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Taxon: Vicia americana Muhl. ex Willd.

 
Genus: Vicia
Subgenus: Vicilla
Section: Americanae
Family: Fabaceae (alt.Leguminosae)
Subfamily: Faboideae
Tribe: Fabeae
Nomen number: 41449
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 3(2):1096. 1802
Link to protologue: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/663863
Name Verified on: 27-Sep-1988 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions: 0 (0 active, 0 available) in National Plant Germplasm System

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

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

Common names:

  • American vetch  (Source: Glea Cron ed2) - English
  • peavine  (Source: Intermt F) - English
  • American vetch  (Source: ICAW) - English (Canada)
  • vesce d’Amérique  (Source: ICAW) - French (Canada)

Economic Importance:

  • Animal food: potential as forage (for fall grazing although less productive than alfalfa)

Distributional Range:

    Native

    Northern America
    • EASTERN CANADA: Canada [Québec, Ontario]
    • WESTERN CANADA: Canada [Saskatchewan, Alberta, Manitoba, British Columbia]
    • NORTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Indiana, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia]
    • NORTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Illinois, Oklahoma, Wisconsin]
    • NORTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming]
    • SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Maryland, Virginia]
    • SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [New Mexico, Texas]
    • SOUTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah]
    • NORTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Chihuahua]
    • SOUTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [México, Morelos]


References:

  1. Allkin, R. et al. 1986. Names and synonyms of species and subspecies in the Vicieae: issue 3. Vicieae Database Project 7:46.
  2. Allred, K. W. & S. Johnson. 2003. A taxonomic review of the tendril-bearing legumes (Leguminosar) in New Mexico: II. Vicia. New Mexico Botanist Newslett. 26:1-8.
  3. Chester, E. W. et al. 1993-1997. Atlas of Tennessee vascular plants.
  4. Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the vascular plants of Texas
  5. Cronquist, A. et al. 1972-. Intermountain flora.
  6. Darbyshire, S. J. 2003. Inventory of Canadian Agricultural Weeds Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. 153.
  7. Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada.
  8. Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2
  9. Gunn, C. R. 1968. The Vicia americana complex (Leguminosae). Iowa State J. Sci. 42:206.
  10. Gunn, C. R. 1979. Genus Vicia with notes about tribe Vicieae (Fabaceae) in Mexico and Central America. Techn. Bull. U.S.D.A. 1601:21.
  11. Hermann, F. J. 1960. Vetches of the United States - native, naturalized and cultivated. U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 168:79.
  12. Kenicer, G. & S. Norton. 2008. 635. Vicia americana. Curtis's Bot. Mag. 25:342-349.
  13. Martin, W. C. & C. R. Hutchins. 1980. A flora of New Mexico.
  14. McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1977. Atlas of the Flora of the Great Plains.
  15. McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1986. Flora of the Great Plains.
  16. Radford, A. E. et al., eds. 1980-. Vascular flora of the southeastern United States.
  17. Rhoads, A. F. & W. M. Klein, Jr. 1993. The vascular flora of Pennsylvannia. Annotated checklist and atlas. Note: American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia
  18. Schaefer, H. et al. 2012. Systematics, biogeography, and character evolution of the legume tribe Fabeae with special focus on the middle-Atlantic island lineages. B. M. C. Evol. Biol. 12:250.
  19. Schellenberg, M. P. & M. R. Banerjee. 2002. The potential of legume-shrub mixtures for optimum forage production in southwestern Saskatchewan: a greenhouse study. Canad. J. Pl. Sci. 82:357-363.
  20. Scoggan, H. J. 1978-1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol.
  21. Voss, E. 1972-. Michigan flora.

Check other web resources for Vicia americana Muhl. ex Willd. :

  • PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
  • BONAP North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program:
  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • ILDIS: International Legume Database & Information Service
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Databas of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  • PubAg: USDA's National Agricultural Library database of full-text journal articles and citations on the agricultural sciences.
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=41449. Accessed 29 September 2024.