Tufted vetch
Vicia cracca L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 1.9 m
- wide
- —
Fabaceae
Also called Bird vetch, Cow Vetch, Blue vetch, Boreal vetch, Cow vetch
Formerly Cracca major, Cracca plumosa, Cracca vulgaris, Ervum cracca, and 11 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Scrambling annual or perennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Temp. EurasiaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
- Height
- 1.9 mRead from Wikipedia and Plants for a Future, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: Wikipedia 2–2 m; Plants for a Future 1.8–1.8 m
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Flowers
- Purple, violetRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -34.4 °C (USDA zone 4a)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
Not known yet: spread, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- root
- VICCRA, Peasair na luch, Хулганын гиш
- German
- Vogelwicke, Gewöhnliche Vogel-Wicke, Vogel-Wicke
- Finnish
- hiirenvirna, Hiirenherne
- French
- Vesce craque, Vesce jargeau, vesce à épis
- Swedish
- Kråkvicker
- Polish
- Wyka ptasia, Więzołka
- Dutch
- Vogelwikke, vogelwikke
- Czech
- vikev ptačí
- Japanese
- クサフジ, ガーデンベッチ, ケクサフジ
- Danish
- Muse-vikke, Musevikke
- Norwegian Bokmål
- fuglevikke, Fuglevikke
- Chinese
- 多花野豌豆, 多花野碗豆, 广布野豌豆
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- 3D model: Vicia cracca (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.