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Vicia anatolica is a wild annual vetch from Crimea, the Caucasus, Turkey, Iran and Central Asia, belonging to the pea and bean family. It is grown mainly in research and seed collections rather than as a garden plant, so care notes below are general for vetches.
Vicia anatolica (syn. Vicia hajastana) is a species of flowering plant in the vetch genus Vicia, family Fabaceae. It is native to Crimea, the Caucasus, Turkey, Iran, Turkmenistan, and Kyrgyzstan. As its synonym Vicia hajastana it is used in studies of cytoskeletal structures and other cellular functions since it is amenable to laboratory media culturing.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Vicia anatolica 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.
