Vicia cassubica | |
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Flowering and fruiting | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Fabales |
Family: | Fabaceae |
Subfamily: | Faboideae |
Genus: | Vicia |
Species: | V. cassubica |
Binomial name | |
Vicia cassubica | |
Synonyms [2] | |
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Vicia cassubica, called Kashubian vetch and Danzig vetch, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Vicia . Found in thermophilous oak forests, it also does well in old fields that are in later stages of succession. [3]
Despite its binomial and common name suggesting a connection to the Kashubian region of Poland, the plant species is also native to most of Europe, Turkey, North, Northwest and South European Russia, the Levant, the Caucasus and Iran. [2] [4]
Naked or short-haired, erect or climbing, about 30-60 cm long.
Evenly-spaced, composed of 8-12 pairs of elliptic leaflets. Their short and numerous lateral nerves growing at a 45° angle to the main nerve are reticulate. The bracts are entire-edged.
Blooms from June to July. Collected in clusters of 5-14 purple-violet butterfly flowers, whose corolla is 12-15 mm long. Their filament is at least as long as a petal. The clusters are shorter than the leaves that grow at an angle.
Egg-like pods about 1.5 cm long containing usually 1-2 seeds.
Potentillo albae-Quercetum