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Vicia hirsuta
Also called Hairy Tare, Hairy Vetch, Tare Vetch, Tiny Purple Vetch
Tiny vetch (Vicia hirsuta) is a slender climbing annual legume that uses tendrils to scramble over other plants and grows wild in grassy and disturbed places. It is grown mainly as a wild or cover-crop plant rather than as a garden ornamental, and it is sown in spring or autumn in mild climates.
Vicia hirsuta (syn. Ervilia hirsuta) (hairy tare, hairy vetch, tiny vetch) is a species of flowering plant in the pea and bean family Fabaceae.
It is native to Europe and Western Asia. It can be found on other continents as an introduced species. For example, hairy vetch is commonly used in cover crops and green manures on farms in North America. Typically, common vetch or hairy vetch provides the leguminous component of the crop, usually comingled with a grassy component as a nurse crop and an addition of more cellulose to the resultant organic matter (for example, rye or winter wheat). The species Vicia villosa is also called hairy vetch.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Vicia hirsuta 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.
