Vicia sativa - Wikipedia Vicia sativa, known as the common vetch, garden vetch, tare or simply vetch, is a nitrogen-fixing leguminous plant in the family Fabaceae It is now naturalised throughout the world occurring on every continent, except Antarctica and the Arctic [3]
American Vetch Plant Fact Sheet - USDA Plants Database American vetch is a native, perennial, climbing vine that grows approximately 1 to 2 feet tall Each plant has a single stem Tendrils emerge from the end of the multiple leaflets to help secure the plant to the climbing structure
Vetch | Legume, Nitrogen Fixation Cover Crop | Britannica vetch, (genus Vicia), genus of about 140 species of herbaceous plants in the pea family (Fabaceae) The fava bean (Vicia faba) is an important food crop, and several other species of vetch are cultivated as fodder and cover crops and as green manure
KEY POINTS | WHAT IS VETCH? | WHY GROW VETCH? | SUITABLE • Vetch is a versatile, high-production, low-input crop • it can be used for grazing, forage, green or brown manure, grain for livestock and for seed • Vetch is suited to a wide range of rainfall regions and soil types; vetch is more tolerant of acid soils than most grain legumes, except for lupin
Plant Vetch as a Cover Crop | American Meadows Plant vetch as a cover crop and reap the benefits of healthy soil Vetch can be planted to prevent erosion, fix nitrogen, improve soil structure, and suppress weeds We cover all this and more in easy to understand language
Vetch | Species Information Vetch is a well known legume also known as common vetch or tares It scrambling, smothering growth habit and frost tolerance make it a very useful winter cover crop or green manure Used as an over-winter green cover and soil improver, it can also be grazed by livestock An annual species, normally dying away after flowering
Common Vetch - Plant Guide Common Vetch is a native of Europe where it is abundant except in the most northern parts It is also common in some parts of northern Africa and southwestern Asia It is not indigenous to North America but has been introduced from Europe
Common Vetch - NatureSpot Flowers pink to dark reddish purple, with paler wings 18 to 30 mm long, solitary or two together Sub-species nigra has flowers that are uniformly coloured, and with the leaflets of upper leaves much narrower than lower