PLANTS Profile for Vicia villosa ssp. varia (winter vetch)

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Vicia villosa Roth ssp. varia (Host) Corb.
winter vetch


Symbol:		VIVIV8
Group:		Dicot
Family:		Fabaceae
Growth Habit:		Vine Forb/herb
Duration:		Annual Biennial Perennial
U.S. Nativity:		Introduced

Photo of Vicia villosa Roth ssp. varia (Host) Corb.

Vicia dasycarpa

©William S. Justice. Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution, Dept. of Systematic Biology, Botany. Usage Guidelines.

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Vicia villosa Roth ssp. varia (Host) Corb.

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Plant Synonyms:
Vicia villosa Roth ssp. varia (Host) Corb.

	VIDA	Vicia dasycarpa Ten.
	VIVIG	Vicia villosa Roth var. glabrescens W.D.J. Koch

Plant Distribution by State:
Vicia villosa Roth ssp. varia (Host) Corb.

State Distributional Map for Vicia villosa Roth ssp. varia (Host) Corb.

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	AL AR CA GA IL KS KY LA MO MS NC NE NJ NM NY OH OK	OR PA SC TN TX WA WV

Vicia villosa Roth ssp. varia (Host) Corb. occures in the following states: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, Michigan, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, North Dakota, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, West Virginia

Related Taxa:
Vicia villosa Roth ssp. varia (Host) Corb.

View 236 genera in Fabaceae, 69 species in Vicia, 4 subspecies in Vicia villosa Roth

Classification:
Vicia villosa Roth ssp. varia (Host) Corb.

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Kingdom	Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision	Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division	Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class	Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Subclass	Rosidae –
Order	Fabales –
Family	Fabaceae – Pea family
Genus	Vicia L. – vetch
Species	Vicia villosa Roth – winter vetch
Subspecies	Vicia villosa Roth ssp. varia (Host) Corb. – winter vetch

Invasive Information:
Vicia villosa Roth ssp. varia (Host) Corb.

Vicia villosa Roth
hairy vetch
winter vetch
woolly vetch

The related entities italicized and indented above are considered invasive by the authoritative sources noted below. This plant may be known by one or more common names in different places, and some are listed above. Click on an acronym to view each invasive plant list, or click here for a composite list of Invasive Plants of the U.S.

N'EAST		Uva, R.H., J.C. Neal, & J.M. DiTomaso. 1997. Weeds of the Northeast. Cornell University Press. Ithaca, New York. 397pp.
SWSS		Southern Weed Science Society. 1998. Weeds of the United States and Canada. CD-ROM. Southern Weed Science Society. Champaign, Illinois.
WSWS		Whitson, T.D. (Ed.) et al. 1996. Weeds of the West. Western Society of Weed Science in cooperation with Cooperative Extension Services, University of Wyoming. Laramie, Wyoming. 630pp.

Introduced Information:
Vicia villosa Roth ssp. varia (Host) Corb.

This plant is introduced to the United States from another country or countries. Click on link below for a partial or complete list of U.S. introduced plants.

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Other Species Accounts and Images:
Vicia villosa Roth ssp. varia (Host) Corb.

View species account from ARS Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN).

View taxonomic account from Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) for ITIS Taxonomic Serial Number 524812.

View photographs and distribution from University of Tennessee Herbarium.

View species account from Wisconsin State Herbarium (UW-Madison).