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§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb, Vine
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Fabaceae Lindl.
- Genus
- Vicia
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 26 counties across 2 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- High
- Fire
- Low
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- Low
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Frost-free days
- 365 min.
- Root depth
- 12 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Stem
- Mature height
- 1 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 2 ft
- Foliage texture
- Fine
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Purple
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- Low
- Toxicity
- Slight
§3d
Reproduction
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 9,778
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Nursery stock
- No
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- High
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 26 counties across 2 states/territories.
California view state ↗ 25 I ▾
- Alameda 06001
- Butte 06007
- Contra Costa 06013
- Glenn 06021
- Humboldt 06023
- Los Angeles 06037
- Marin 06041
- Mendocino 06045
- Monterey 06053
- Napa 06055
- Orange 06059
- Riverside 06065
- Sacramento 06067
- San Diego 06073
- San Francisco 06075
- San Joaquin 06077
- San Luis Obispo 06079
- San Mateo 06081
- Santa Barbara 06083
- Santa Cruz 06087
- Shasta 06089
- Sonoma 06097
- Sutter 06101
- Tehama 06103
- Ventura 06111
New York view state ↗ 1 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/VIBE ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2975384 ↗Record version
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