Vicia sepium L.:
Canada (North America)
Greenland (North America)
Japan (Asia)
Kyrgyzstan (Asia)
Kazakhstan (Asia)
Mongolia (Asia)
North Korea (Asia)
Russian Federation (Asia)
South Korea (Asia)
Tajikistan (Asia)
Turkey (Asia)
United States (North America)
China (Asia)
India (Asia)

Canada

Origin: Exotic

Regularity: Regularly occurring

Currently: Unknown/Undetermined

Confidence: Confident

United States

Origin: Exotic

Regularity: Regularly occurring

Currently: Unknown/Undetermined

Confidence: Confident

Distribution: Pakistan; Kashmir, Central Asia; Caucasia, Siberia, throughout Europe.

Perennial, scrambling or suberect. Rootstock creeping, stem sparsely pubescent. Leaf paripinnately compound, leaflets 8-12, 1-3 cm long, c. 5-12 mm broad, narrowly ovate, subobtuse or emarginate; stipules semi-sagittate toothed, the upper entire, tendril branched. Inflorescence a 2-5-flowered raceme, peduncle short. Calyx c. 7-9 mm long, glabrous or pubescent, mouth somewhat oblique, teeth unequal, the lowest subequal to the tube. Corolla reddish to lilac blue. Vexillum c. 12-15 mm long. Fruit 20-25 mm long, 7 mm broad, narrowly oblong, glabrous, 4-7-seeded.

Perennial, Herbs, Plants with rhizomes or suckers, Nodules present, Stems erect or ascending, Stems or branches arching, spreading or decumbent, Stems less than 1 m tall, Climbing by tendrils, Stems solid, Stems or young twigs sparsely to densely hairy, Stems hairs pilose or spreading, Leaves alternate, Leaves petiolate, Stipules conspicuous, Stipules green, triangulate to lanceolate or foliaceous, Stipules persistent, Stipules free, Stipules cordate, lobed, or sagittate, Leaves compound, Leaves even pinnate, Leaf or leaflet margins entire, Leaflets opposite, Leaflets alternate or subopposite, Leaflets 5-9, Leaflets 10-many, Leaves hairy on one or both surfaces, Flowers in axillary clusters or few-floweredracemes, 2-6 flowers, Inflorescence sessile or subsessile, Inflorescence axillary, Bracts very small, absent or caducous, Flowers sessile or nearly so, Flowers zygomorphic, Calyx 5-lobed, Calyx hairy, Petals separate, Corolla papilionaceous, Petals clawed, Petals white, Petals blue, lavander to purple, or violet, Petals bicolored or with red, purple or yellow streaks or spots, Banner petal ovoid or obovate, Wing petals narrow, oblanceolate to oblong, Wing petals auriculate, Wing tips obtuse or rounded, Keel tips obtuse or rounded, not beaked, Stamens 9-10, Stamens diadelphous, 9 united, 1 free, Filaments glabrous, Style terete, Style sharply bent, Style hairy, Style hairy on one side only, Style with distal tuft of hairs, Fruit a legume, Fruit stipitate, Fruit unilocular, Fruit freely dehiscent, Fruit oblong or ellipsoidal, Fruit exserted from calyx, Valves twisting or coiling after dehiscence, Fruit glabrous or glabrate, Fruit 3-10 seeded, Seeds ovoid to rounded in outline, Seed surface smooth, Seeds olive, brown, or black, Seed surface mottled or patchy.

Foodplant / miner
solitary larva of Agromyza felleri mines leaf of Vicia sepium
Other: sole host/prey

Foodplant / gall
larva of Apion aethiops causes gall of stem of Vicia sepium
Other: major host/prey

Foodplant / internal feeder
larva of Apion pomonae feeds within pod (on unripe seeds) of Vicia sepium
Other: major host/prey

Foodplant / internal feeder
larva of Apion punctigerum feeds within pod of Vicia sepium
Other: major host/prey

Foodplant / feeds on
larva of Apion vorax feeds on Vicia sepium
Other: major host/prey

In Great Britain and/or Ireland:
Foodplant / parasite
Erysiphe pisi var. pisi parasitises Vicia sepium

Foodplant / gall
Megoura viciae causes gall of leaf of Vicia sepium

Foodplant / parasite
hypophyllous sporangium of Peronospora viciae parasitises yellowed leaflet of Vicia sepium
Other: major host/prey

Foodplant / feeds on
larva of Sitona ambiguus feeds on Vicia sepium
Other: major host/prey

Foodplant / feeds on
larva of Sitona suturalis feeds on Vicia sepium
Other: major host/prey

Foodplant / parasite
telium of Uromyces viciae-fabae var. viciae-fabae parasitises live Vicia sepium

Fl.Per.: July-August.

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLDS) Stats
Public Records: 1
Species: 3
Species With Barcodes: 1

Canada

Rounded National Status Rank: NNA - Not Applicable

United States

Rounded National Status Rank: NNA - Not Applicable

Rounded Global Status Rank: GNR - Not Yet Ranked