Index / Search / Vicia sativa ssp. sativa
§1 Plant
Vicia sativa L. ssp. sativa
vernacular garden vetch — subspecies · Fabaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb, Vine
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Fabaceae Lindl.
- Genus
- Vicia
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
County-level range
· 98 counties across 13 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 98 counties across 13 states/territories.
California view state ↗ 28 I ▾
- Alameda 06001
- Butte 06007
- Calaveras 06009
- Contra Costa 06013
- Glenn 06021
- Humboldt 06023
- Los Angeles 06037
- Marin 06041
- Mendocino 06045
- Monterey 06053
- Napa 06055
- Plumas 06063
- Riverside 06065
- Sacramento 06067
- San Diego 06073
- San Francisco 06075
- San Luis Obispo 06079
- San Mateo 06081
- Santa Barbara 06083
- Santa Clara 06085
- Santa Cruz 06087
- Shasta 06089
- Solano 06095
- Sonoma 06097
- Tehama 06103
- Tuolumne 06109
- Ventura 06111
- Yolo 06113
Kentucky view state ↗ 5 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 14 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 1 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 14 I ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 11 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 8 I ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Washington view state ↗ 3 I ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 2 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/VISAS2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/7068379 ↗Record version
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