Vicia lutea
Vicia lutea
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Annual, subglabrous to hirsute, ascending, erect or climbing, 14-80 cm. Leaflets 5-9-paired, 5-25 x 2-6 mm, linear to narrowly elliptic or oblong, acute to subretuse; stipules less than 6 mm, semi-hastate or triangular 2-3-partite; tendrils mostly branched. Peduncle obsolescent. Pedicel much shorter than calyx. Flowers 1, 17-30 mm, yellowish or violet. Calyx 10-13 mm, with an oblique mouth, glabrous; teeth unequal, narrowly triangular to lanceolate-subulate, the lower slightly longer than tube. Standard with limb usually somewhat shorter than claw. Legume oblong-linear to rhomboid-oblong, 20-33 x 7-12 mm, recurved and beaked, hirsute with ± tubercled hairs. Seeds 3-6, hilum ¼-1/6 of perimeter. Fl. 3-6. Fields, s.l.-700 m.
1. Subglabrous or sparingly pilose; leaflets mucronulate; corolla yellow; legume sparsely hirsute with hairs very weakly tubercled at base and blackish or reddish brown towards maturity .......var. lutea
1. Generally pilose-hirsute; leaflets ± acuminate and mucronate; corolla pale yellow or purple-violet; legumes densely hirsute-sericeous with hairs conspicuously tubercled at base and whitish to reddish towards maturity ...............var. hirta
W., C. & S. Europe, Crimea, N. Africa, Caucasia, N. Iran.
