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Bayer Code : vichi

Scientific name: Vicia hirsuta (L.) S.F. Gray


Synonym(s) of Sc. name:

Classification: Leguminosae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: hairy tare

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Rauhhaar-Wicke ; ES : alverjon ; FR : vesce hérissée ; IT : veccia tentennina ; PT : unhas-de-gato ; EN : hairy tare ; NL : ringelwikke, NL : duivekrokke ; DK : tofroet vikke

Biological type: Annual


Seedling snapshot Seedling:

- Cotyledons obscure (hypogeal germination).

- Leaves pinnately divided.


Adult plant snapshot Adult plant snapshot Adult plant:

- Height: 20-80 cm. Plant hairy, slender.

- Stem ascending or climbing, hairy.

- Leaves with 6-8 pairs of leaflets linear to ovate -narrow, emarginate or obliquely truncate, usually hairy only beneath, with a terminal branched tendril.

- Flowers light-purple to whitish, very small 2-4 mm, 3-6 in inflorescence on a peduncle shorter or equalling the leaf.

- Fruits : pods drooped, flat, trapezoid, 6 to 10 x 3-4 mm, with short and smooth hairs, becoming glabrous, light olive-green to light brown, 2-seeded.

- Biological type: annual.

Mistake with: Vicia villosa , Vicia pubescens , Vicia parviflora


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