Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fabales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Vicia grandiflora
FAMILY
Fabaceae
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Learn more about Bigflower Vetch from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Vicia grandiflora
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Vicia grandiflora
SYNONYMOUS WITH Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)
Vicia grandiflora
INCLUDING VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-36-002:
Vicia grandiflora var. kitaibeliana FAMILY Fabaceae
COMMON NAME:
Bigflower Vetch, Large Yellow Vetch
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JK Marlow s120320_a
March Greenville County SC
Leaves with a weak, usually branched, tendril and 6-14 leaflets, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
COMPARE
pinnately compound leaves of forbs
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JK Marlow jkm070424_001
April Greenville County SC
The flowers are large enough to see from the road.
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JK Marlow jkm070424_005b
April Greenville County SC
1-4 flowers clustered in the leaf axil, inflorescence nearly sessile, per Weakley's Flora.
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JK Marlow jkm120402_332
April Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm120402_336
April Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm120402_353
April Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm120402_356
April Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm120402_359
April Greenville County SC
Corolla 25-30mm long, yellow, often streaked with purple, per Weakley's Flora.
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JK Marlow jkm120402_362
April Greenville County SC
Calyx lobes 1/3-1/2 as long as the spreading short-pubescent calyx tube, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow jkm070509_004
May Greenville County SC
Calyx lobes more or less equal and all shorter than calyx tube, per Weakley's Flora.
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JK Marlow jkm070509_008
May Greenville County SC
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Vicia grandiflora
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Vicia grandiflora
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Vicia grandiflora
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)
Vicia grandiflora
INCLUDING
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-36-002:
Vicia grandiflora var. kitaibeliana
FAMILY
Fabaceae
1634
Forb
Annual
Habitat: Disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora
Non-native: Europe
Uncommon
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LEAVES:
Even-pinnately compound: 6-14 leaflets
Mostly alternate
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Yellowish/ Whitish
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-parted papilionaceous corolla
10 stamens, diadelphous, 9 and 1
Superior ovary
Flowers (1-)2(-4) in upper leaf axils
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Legume
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses (Miller & Miller, 2005) p196
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001) p381
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry (Porcher, 1995) p200
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p209
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p076
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