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Vicia hirsuta · gauruotasis vikis

  • Ervilia hirsuta
  • hairy tare, hairy vetch, tiny vetch
  • Rauhaarige Wicke, Acker-Wicke
  • gauruotasis vikis
  • pūkainais vīķis
  • wyka drobnokwiatowa

It is native to Europe and Western Asia and can be found on other continents as an introduced species. It is an annual herb producing a slender, often four-sided, hairless to lightly hairy, climbing stem up to 70 to 90 cm tall. The leaves are tipped with tendrils that support the plant as it climbs, and are made up of up to 10 pairs of elongated leaflets each up to 2 cm in length with notched, flat, sharply pointed, or toothed tips. The inflorescence is a raceme of up to 8 flowers borne near the tip and often on one side only. Each flower is whitish or pale blue, just a few millimeters in length, and short-lived. The fruit is a legume pod up to a centimeter long by half a centimeter wide and hairy, often densely so. It is pale green to nearly black in color and contains usually two seeds.

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