Hairy vetch
Vicia villosa Roth
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 1.2 m
- wide
- 61 cm
Fabaceae
Also called Winter Vetch, Fodder Vetch, Woolly pod vetch, Fodder vetch
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.
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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
- Canary Is., N. Africa, EC. & S. Europe to C. Asia and AfghanistanKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension and Plants For A Future, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 1.1 m to 1.4 mRead from NC State Extension and Plants For A Future, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: NC State Extension 1–3 ft; Plants For A Future 1.8–1.8 m
- Spread
- 30 cm to 91 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension and Plants For A Future, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- Pink, purple, blueRead from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Swedish
- Luddvicker
- Spanish
- veza de invierno, Veza vellosa
- root
- VICVIL
- French
- Vesce velue, Vesce de Cerdagne, vesce velue
- Hebrew
- בקיה שעירה
- Italian
- veccia villosa
- German
- Zottige Wicke, Hairy vetch
- Polish
- Wyka kosmata
- Czech
- vikev huňatá
- Estonian
- põld-hiirehernes, takerkarvane hiirehernes, talivikk
- Russian
- Горошек мохнатый
- Dutch
- Bonte wikke, bonte wikke
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
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Plants For A Future, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Vicia villosa (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.