Vicia dasycarpa Ten.

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Family: LEGUMINOSAE

Genus: Vicia

Province distribution: Balearic Islands. Barcelona. Girona. Lleida. Tarragona.

Distribution in the islands: Mallorca. Menorca.

General distribution (Phytogeography): Holoartica

IUCN Category: LCLeast concern

Flowering time: JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Life-forms: Hemicryptophyte. Terophyte.

Habitats: Cultivated fields, path and road sides, disturbed zones. Therophytic calicole fields. Cultivated fields, disturbed zones.

Characteristics: This herb entwines itself in other plants, has leaves with many foliolates, Flowers are very numerous, more than a centimetre in length, violet in colour, although at times white. Are grouped into dense racemes of more than 10 flowers, which droop slightly. Flowers in spring.