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Vicia nigricans
About
Vicia nigricans is a species of vetch known by the common name black vetch. It has a disjunct distribution, its two subspecies divided by thousands of miles in range. The northern subspecies, ssp. gigantea, is native to western North America from Alaska to northern California, where it occurs in coastal and moist inland habitat and disturbed areas. The southern subspecies, ssp. nigricans, occurs in southern South America, in Argentina and Chile.
- Family
- Fabaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Vicia nigricans
- Slug
- vicia-nigricans
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Vicia
- Species
- nigricans
- Wikidata QID
- Q4115589
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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