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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Vicia villosa ssp. varia
FAMILY
Fabaceae
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Vicia villosa ssp. varia
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Vicia villosa ssp. varia
SYNONYMOUS WITH Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)
Vicia villosa ssp. varia
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-36-007:
Vicia dasycarpa FAMILY Fabaceae
COMMON NAME:
Smooth Vetch, Winter Vetch
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Roxanna Martin rlm42810_061
April Spartanburg County SC
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JK Marlow jkm140521_071
May Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
Leaflets mostly 14-20, more or less pubescent on both sides. Tendrils branched, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
COMPARE
pinnately compound leaves of forbs
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JK Marlow jkm140521_076b
May Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
Racemes secund with (5)10-20 densely clustered flowers. Peduncles 2-6cm long, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow jkm140521_079
May Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
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JK Marlow jkm140521_082
May Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
Flowers are bicolored (violet & white) in both [ssp. varia and ssp. villosa], per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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JK Marlow jkm140521_084
May Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
Plant glabrate or pubescence of hairs < 1mm long (not conspicuously villous), per Weakley's Flora (2012).
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Roxanna Martin rlm51009_379
May Spartanburg County SC
Flowers on pedicels 1-2mm long, appearing distinctly laterally attached, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Roxanna Martin rlm51009_383
May Spartanburg County SC
Petals usually violet, rarely white, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Roxanna Martin rlm52110_38
May Spartanburg County SC
Legume oblong, 2-4cm long, 7-10mm broad, compressed, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Roxanna Martin rlm52111_81
May Spartanburg County SC
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Roxanna Martin rlm52111_82
May Spartanburg County SC
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Roxanna Martin rlm53010_701
May Spartanburg County SC
Racemes long-stalked, dense, one-sided, mostly with 5-15 blue flowers, per Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005).
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Roxanna Martin rlm5711_52
May Spartanburg County SC
Calyx lobes unequal: upper 0.5mm or less, lowermost and longest 1-2mm long, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Roxanna Martin rlm5908_166
May Spartanburg County SC
Calyx tube decidedly gibbous [one-sidedly enlarged] at base on upper side, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow jkm140623_208
June Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
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JK Marlow jkm140623_212
June Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
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JK Marlow jkm140623_213
June Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
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JK Marlow jkm140623_214
June Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Vicia villosa ssp. varia
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Vicia villosa ssp. varia
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Vicia villosa ssp. varia
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)
Vicia villosa ssp. varia
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-36-007:
Vicia dasycarpa
FAMILY
Fabaceae
1916
Forb
Annual/Biennial/Rarely perennial
Habitat: Disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora
Non-native: Europe
Common
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LEAVES:
Even-pinnately compound: 14-20 leaflets (mostly)
Mostly alternate
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Violet
(rarely white)
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-parted papilionaceous corolla
10 stamens, diadelphous, 9 and 1
Superior ovary
Racemes long-stalked, one-sided, with (5)10-20 densely clustered flowers
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Legume
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p112?
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p344?
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry (Porcher, 1995) p207
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p037
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p210
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p144
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p182
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p077
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011) p335