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Vicia americana
Also called American Purple Vetch, Peavine, Purple Vetch, American Deervetch
American vetch is a climbing perennial legume native across North America, grown mainly for forage, soil reclamation and wildlife value rather than as an ornamental. It tolerates dry, sandy or coarse soils, which is the key to growing it.
Vicia americana is a species of legume in the vetch genus known by the common names American vetch and purple vetch. It includes a subspecies known as mat vetch.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Vicia americana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
