Vicia acutifolia

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Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Physical Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 63 meters (0 to 207 feet).[1]

Biology

Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Comment: Climbing : Climbing, Conservation Status: Not Threatened, Habit: Herb, Lifespan: Perennial

Similar Species

Members of the genus Vicia

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 266 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

V. acutifolia (Fourleaf Vetch) · V. alpestris (Goroshek Gornyi) · V. americana (American Deervetch) · V. americana americana (American Purple Vetch) · V. americana mexicana (American Vetch) · V. americana minor (American Vetch) · V. americana var. sinensis (American Vetch) · V. amoena (Cheder Ebs) · V. amoena amoena (Tsuru Fuji Bakama) · V. amurensis (Amaryn Gish) · V. articulata (Monantha Vetch) · V. benghalensis (Hairy Vetch) · V. bithynica (Bithynian Vetch) · V. caroliniana (Carolina Vetch) · V. cassubica (Danzig Vetch) · V. ciceroidea (Goroshek Nutovyi) · V. cracca (Bird Vetch) · V. cracca cracca (Bird Vetch) · V. cracca incana (Bird Vetch) · V. crocea (Goroshek Oranzhevyi) · V. disperma (European Vetch) · V. ervilia (Bitter Vetch) · V. faba (Ackerbohne) · V. faba faba (Ackerbohne) · V. faba minor (Fava-Bean) · V. faba paucijuga (Field Bean) · V. faba var. equina (Field-Bean) · V. faba var. minor (Ackerbohne) · V. faba 'Ackerperle' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Acme' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Alexandria' (Broad Bean 'alexandria') · V. faba 'Alladin' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Andes' Tan' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Annie Steffan's' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Ants' Purple' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Aprovecho' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Aprovecho Large' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Aprovecho Select' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Aquadulce' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Aquadulce Claudia' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Ascott' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Aztec' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Aztec Yellow' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Baba Beltzu' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Banner' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Bell' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Beryl' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Big Ben' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Blue Anton' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Bohusbone' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Bohus Delikatess' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Bonnie Lad' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Bope' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Bowman' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Broad Windsor' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Brunette' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Bunyard's Exhibition' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Cairo Market' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Castillo Franco' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Chak'rusga' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Chiapas Red and Tan' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Coffee Bean' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Coles Dwarf' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Colossal' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Conqueror' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Con Amore' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Copper Fava' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Cordiero' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Crimson-Flowered' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Cuku Pupas' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Cypriot Fava' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Dali' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Deiniol' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Dreadnaught' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Driemaal Wit' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Dwarf Prolific' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Egyptian' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'English Longpod' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Espanola Valley' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Excel' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Express' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Express Longpod' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Extra Early Purple Seed' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Extra Early White Seed' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Feligreen' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Fidrim' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Fillbasket' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Finland' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Foul Muddammmas' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Franz Nachbau' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Frog Island Nation' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Fury' (Broad Bean 'fury') · V. faba 'Futura' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Giant Exhibition Longpod' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Goteryd' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Grebo' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Green Windsor' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Grosse Bohne' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Guatemalan Purple' (Broad Bean) · V. faba 'Gubbestad' (Broad Bean)

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Further Reading

• Annual report / Florida State Geological Survey. Tallahassee, Fla.: Capital Pub. Co., state printer, url p. 308, p. 409, p. 436.
• Bartonia;proceedings of the Philadelphia botanical club. .. 1949 Philadelphia, Philadelphia Botanical Club, Academy of Natural Sciences. url p. 65.
• Bulletin: report of Agricultural Experiment Station, Agricultural and Mechanical College, Auburn, Ala. Auburn, Ala.: The Station, [1888-1903] url p. 287.
• Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 6 1901 Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1890- url p. 576.
• Flora of Miami; being descriptions of the seed-plants growing naturally on the Everglade Keys and in the adjacent Everglades, southern peninsular Florida. New York, The author, 1913. url p. 95, p. 95.
• Flora of the Florida Keys; being descriptions of the seed-plants growing naturally on the islands of the Florida reef from Virginia Key to Dry Tortugas. New York, The author, 1913. url p. 68.
• Flora of the Florida keys; being descriptions of the see-plants growing naturally on the islands of the Florida reef from Virginia key to Dry Tortugas, by John Kunkel Small. .. New York: The author, 1913. url p. 68.
• Flora of the southeastern United States; being descriptions of the seed-plants, ferns and fern-allies growing naturally in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, and in Oklahom by John Kunkel Small. New York, The author, 1913. url p. 655, p. 655, p. 656, p. 656.
• Flora of the southern United States, containing an abridged description of the flowering plants and ferns of Tennessee, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida; arranged according to the natural system by A.W. Chapman. New York, American Book Company[1897] url p. 616, p. 98.
• Florida wild flowers; an introduction to the flora of the Florida peninsula, by Mary Francis Baker, photographs by the author. New York, The Macmillan company, 1926. url p. 255.
• Journal of the New York Botanical Garden. 24 1923 Lancaster, Pa.: Published for the Garden by the New Era Printing Co., 1900- url p. 194.
• Manual of the southeastern flora: being descriptions of the seed plants growing naturally in Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, eastern Louisiana, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. 1933 New York: The author, 1933. url p. 741.
• North American fauna. Washington: Fish and Wildlife Service; for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U. S. Govt. Print. Off. url p. 87.
• Plant life of Alabama, an account of the distribution, modes of association, and adaptations of the flora of Alabama, together with a systematic catalogue of the plants growing in the state. By Charles Mohr. .. Montgomery, Ala., Brown printing co., 1901. url p. 576.
• Plant life of Alabama. An account of the distribution, modes of association, and adaptations of the flora of Alabama, together with a systematic catalogue of the plants growing in the state. Prepared in cooperationwith the Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1901. url .
• Plant life of Alabama: an account of the distribution, modes of association, and adaptations of the flora of Alabama, together with a systematic catalogue of the plants growing in the state / by Charles Mohr. Montgomery, Ala.: Brown Printing Co., 1901. url p. 576.
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 224, p. 47.
• Small, J. K. Flora of the southeastern United States;being descriptions of the seed-plants, ferns and fern-allies growing naturally in North Carolina, South Carolin, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana and the Indian territory and in Oklahoma and Texas east of the one-hundredth meridian /by John Kunkel Small. .. 1903 New York: The author, 1903. url p. 655.
• The American botanist and florist, including lessons in the structure, life growth of plants, together with a simple analytical flora, descriptive of the native and cultivated plants growing in the Atlantic division of the American uni New York, Barnes[n.d.] url p. 86.
• The American botanist and florist: including lessons in the structure, life, and growth of plants: together with a simple analytical flora, descriptive of the native and cultivated plants growing in the Atlantic division of the Americ by Alphonso Wood. New York: A. S. Barnes, 1877, c1870. url p. 86.
• The vegetation of south Florida south of 27 30 north, exclusive of the Florida keys, by John W. Harshberger. Philadelphia, Wagner Free Institute of Science, 1914. url p. 137.
• Transactions of the. .. annual meetings of the Kansas Academy of Science. Topeka, Kan.: Kansas Pub. House, 1883-1901. url p. 99.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 11, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 01, 2007:

• USDA PLANTS, USDA PLANTS Database

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3874521
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ILD-12111
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13637912
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:524493-1
• GRIN Nomen Number: 41448
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 26332
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: VIAC3
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 66681

Footnotes

1. Mean = 17.200 meters (56.430 feet), Standard Deviation = 15.200 based on 51 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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