See other conspecific taxa:

• Vicia sativa (0 accessions)
• Vicia sativa subsp. amphicarpa (0 accessions)
• Vicia sativa subsp. cordata (0 accessions)
• Vicia sativa subsp. devia (0 accessions)
• Vicia sativa subsp. macrocarpa (0 accessions)
• Vicia sativa subsp. sativa (0 accessions)

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

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

• (=) Vicia angustifolia L.
• (=) Vicia angustifolia var. angustifolia L.
• (=) Vicia angustifolia var. segetalis (Thuill.) W. D. J. Koch
• (=) Vicia cuneata Guss.
• (=) Vicia heterophylla C. Presl
• (≡) Vicia nigra (L.) Dubois
• (=) Vicia pilosa M. Bieb.
• (=) Vicia sativa subsp. cuneata (Guss.) Maire
• (=) Vicia sativa subsp. segetalis (Thuill.) Čelak.
• (=) Vicia sativa subsp. terana (Losa) Benedí & Molero
• (=) Vicia sativa var. angustifolia L.
• Basionym: Vicia sativa var. nigra L.
• (=) Vicia segetalis Thuill.
• (=) Vicia terana Losa

Common names:

• black-pod vetch  (Source: Dict Rehm) - English
• narrow-leaf vetch  (Source: Leg Tex) - English
• narrow-leaved vetch   (Source: ICAW) - English (Canada)
• vesce noire  (Source: ICAW) - French (Canada)
• schmalblättrige Wicke  (Source: Dict Rehm) - German
• averijilla  (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish
• liten sommarvicker  (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish
• stor sommarvicker  (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish
• zhai ye ye wan dou  (Source: F ChinaEng) - Transcribed Chinese
• gorošek uzkolistnyj  (Source: F Armenia) - Transliterated Russian

Economic Importance:

• Animal food: fodder
• Environmental:
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals (as Vicia angustifolia) mammals (as Vicia angustifolia) mammals (as Vicia angustifolia)

Distributional Range:

Native

Africa

• NORTHERN AFRICA: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia
• NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Ethiopia, Sudan
• EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
• WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda

Asia-Temperate

• ARABIAN PENINSULA: Saudi Arabia
• WESTERN ASIA: Afghanistan, Cyprus, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
• CAUCASUS: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russian Federation [Checheno-Ingushetia, Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachay-Cherkessia, North Ossetia, Krasnodar, Stavropol]
• SIBERIA: Russian Federation, [Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, Kurgan, Novosibirsk, Sverdlovsk, Tomsk] Russian Federation-Western Siberia [Western Siberia (s.)]
• MIDDLE ASIA: Kazakhstan (s.e.), Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan (s.), Uzbekistan
• MONGOLIA: Mongolia [Govi-Altay]
• CHINA: China

Asia-Tropical

• INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan

Europe

• NORTHERN EUROPE: Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom
• MIDDLE EUROPE: Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland
• EASTERN EUROPE: Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russian Federation, [Chuvashia, Karelia, Komi, Mari-El, Mordvinia, Tatarstan, Udmurtia, Arkhangelsk, Belgorod, Bryansk, Ivanovo, Kaliningrad, Kaluga, Kirov, Kostroma, Kursk, Leningrad, Lipetsk, Moscow, Murmansk, Novgorod, Orel, Penza, Perm, 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


Cultivated (also cult.)

Naturalized (natzd. elsewhere in temperate regions)

References:

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3. Berger, J. D. et al. 2003. Agricultural potential of Mediterranean grain and forage legumes: 1) Anti-nutritional factor concentrations in the genus Vicia. Genet. Resources Crop Evol. 50:201-212. Note: it examined four accessions of this taxon, of all four anti-nutritional factors (glutamyl-beta-Cyano-alanine, phenols, tannins and proteinase inhbitors) only one (glutamyl-beta-Cyano-alanine) was higher than other subspecies
4. Cooper, M. R. & A. W. Johnson. 1998. Poisonous plants and fungi in Britain: animal and human poisoning Note: poisonous
5. Darbyshire, S. J. 2003. Inventory of Canadian Agricultural Weeds Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. 154.
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16. Turner, B. L. 1959. The legumes of Texas.
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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=41566. Accessed 29 June 2024.