- Environmental: soil improver ()
- Human food: pulse (locally cultivated in Morocco, but also see Ladizinsky & van Oss (1984), fide Curr Pl Sci Biotech 34:676. 1999)
- Animal food: fodder ()
- Gene sources: primary genetic relative of bitter-vetch (Vicia ervilia is mostly used for fodder, and all hybrids from crosses of wild and cultivated populations are fertile fide Bot J Linn Soc 89:97, 100. 1984)
- Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of one-flower vetch (based on probable affinities to Vicia articulata fide Pl Genet Res Char Ut doi:10.1017/S1479262115000623 pages 6, 7. 2015)
- Vertebrate poisons: mammals (to livestock fide Enneking 27. 1995)
Native
Africa
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MACARONESIA:
Portugal,
[Madeira Islands]
Spain
[Canary Islands]
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NORTHERN AFRICA:
Algeria (introd.?),
Egypt (n.w.),
Libya (rare)
Asia-Temperate
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WESTERN ASIA:
Afghanistan,
Cyprus,
Iran,
Iraq (n.),
Israel,
Jordan,
Lebanon,
Syria,
Turkey
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CAUCASUS:
Armenia,
Azerbaijan,
Georgia,
Russian Federation
[Dagestan,
Krasnodar]
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MIDDLE ASIA:
Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan,
Turkmenistan,
Uzbekistan
Europe
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SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE:
Albania,
Bulgaria,
Former Yugoslavia,
Greece (incl. Crete),
Italy (incl. Sicily)
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SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE:
France,
Portugal,
Spain (incl. Baleares)
Cultivated
(also cult.)
- Afonin, A. N., S. L. Greene, N. I. Dzyubenko, & A. N. Frolov, eds. Interactive agricultural ecological atlas of Russia and neighboring countries. Economic plants and their diseases, pests and weeds (on-line resource). (AgroAtlas)
- Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource on www.skud.info). 2012 (Kulturvaxtdatabas)
- Ali, S. I. & S. M. H. Jafri, eds. Flora of Libya. (F Libya)
- Allkin, R. et al. 1986. Names and synonyms of species and subspecies in the Vicieae: issue 3 (Vicieae DP) 7:53.
- Berger, J. D. et al. 2003. Agricultural potential of Mediterranean grain and forage legumes: 2) Anti-nutritional factor concentrations in the genus Vicia Genet. Resources Crop Evol. 50:201-212.
- Bryant, J. A. & S. G. Hughes 2011. Chapter 14. Vicia (Wild Crop Rel Leg Cr) 273-289.
- Davis, P. H., ed. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
- Demilly, D. et al. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 7. 2001 (L Noms French ed7)
- Duke, J. A. Handbook of legumes of world economic importance. 1981 (Leg WorldEc)
- Encke, F. et al. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. 1984 (Zander ed13)
- Enneking, D. 1995. The toxicity of Vicia species and their utilization as grain legumes 27.
- Enneking, D. 2011. The nutritive value of grasspea (Lathyrus sativus) and allied species, their toxicity to animals and the role of malnutrition in neurolathyrism Food Chem. Toxicol. 49:694-709.
- Eriksson, O. et al. Flora of Macaronesia: checklist of vascular plants, ed. 2. (L Macar ed2)
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource). (Ecocrop)
- Francis, C. M. et al. 1999. When and where will vetches have an impact as grain legumes? Curr. Pl. Sci. Biotech. Agric. 34:671-683.
- Hanelt, P., ed. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6. 2001 (Mansf Ency)
- Hermann, F. J. 1960. Vetches of the United States - native, naturalized and cultivated U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 168:9.
- Izquierdo Z., I. et al., eds. Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres. 2004 (L Canarias)
- Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
- Ladizinsky, G. & H. van Oss 1984. Genetic relationships between wild and cultivated Vicia ervilia (L.) Willd. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 89:97-100.
- Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
- Meikle, R. D. Flora of Cyprus. (F Cyprus)
- Mouterde, P. Nouvelle flore du Liban et de la Syrie. (F Liban)
- Pignatti, S. Flora d'Italia. (F Ital)
- Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource). (Pl Names)
- Quézel, P. & S. Santa Nouvelle flore de l'Algerie. (F Alger)
- Raveendar, S. et al. 2015. Comparative efficacy of four candidate DNA barcode regions for identification of Vicia species Pl. Genet. Resources Charact. Util. 1-10.
- Raynaud, C. 1976. Monographie et iconographie du genre Vicia L. au Maroc Bull. Inst. Sci. Univ. Mohammed V. 1:170.
- Rechinger, K. H., ed. Flora iranica. (F Iran)
- Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994 (Dict Rehm)
- 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.
- Smythies, B. E. Flora of Spain and the Balearic Islands: checklist of vascular plants. Englera 3:1-882. (L Spain)
- Täckholm, V. Students' flora of Egypt, ed. 2. (SF Egypt)
- Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest Flora of Iraq. (F Iraq)
- Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
- Yakovlev, G. P. et al. Legumes of Northern Eurasia. 1996 (Leg NEurasia)
- Zohary, M. & N. Feinbrun-Dothan Flora palaestina. (F Palest)
Check other web resources for Vicia ervilia (L.) Willd. :
- Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
- 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.
Images:
- Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2018. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=41481. Accessed 26 April 2018.