Vicia incanaGouan

WFO wfo-0000214053 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Vicia incana, photographed by Dolors Casadevall
fig. a Dolors Casadevall, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-05-02 / obs. 125090213
Vicia incana, photographed by Josep Gesti
fig. b Josep Gesti, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 119345035
Vicia incana, photographed by Katarzyna Żarnowiec
fig. c Katarzyna Żarnowiec, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 181935597
Vicia incana, photographed by Katarzyna Żarnowiec
fig. d Katarzyna Żarnowiec, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 181935603
Vicia incana, photographed by Katarzyna Żarnowiec
fig. e Katarzyna Żarnowiec, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 182068428
Vicia incana, photographed by Katarzyna Żarnowiec
fig. f Katarzyna Żarnowiec, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 182070687
Vicia incana, photographed by Katarzyna Żarnowiec
fig. g Katarzyna Żarnowiec, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 181934827
Vicia incana, photographed by Katarzyna Żarnowiec
fig. h Katarzyna Żarnowiec, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 181934833

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Native range 17 botanical countries

Regions where Vicia incana is native: Lebanon-Syria, Türkiye, Albania, Austria, Baltic States, Bulgaria, Corse, Czechia-Slovakia, France, Greece, Italy, NW. Balkan Pen., Portugal, Sicilia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine Lebanon-SyriaTürkiyeAlbaniaAustriaBaltic StatesBulgariaCorseCzechia-SlovakiaFranceGreeceItalyNW. Balkan Pen.PortugalSiciliaSpainSwitzerlandUkraine
Native distribution of Vicia incana, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Austria AUT
Baltic States BLT
Bulgaria BUL
Corse COR
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
France FRA
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Portugal POR
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Switzerland SWI
Ukraine UKR
Lebanon-Syria LBS ASIA-TEMPERATE
Türkiye TUR

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 17 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Cracca gerhardi (Jacq.) Medik.
  • Vicia amphicarpa f. villosa (Merino) Merino
  • Vicia angustifolia var. villosa Merino
  • Vicia candolleana Ten.
  • Vicia cracca prol. grenieri Rouy
  • Vicia cracca subsp. galloprovincialis (Poir.) Asch. & Graebn.
  • Vicia cracca subsp. gerardi (W.D.J.Koch) Briq.
  • Vicia cracca subsp. gerardi Bonnier & Layens
  • Vicia cracca subsp. incana (Gouan) Rouy
  • Vicia cracca var. incana Burnat
  • Vicia fontanesiana Ten. ex Nyman
  • Vicia galloprovincialis Poir.
  • Vicia gerardi Vill.
  • Vicia gerardii Godr. & Gren.
  • Vicia gerardii Jacq.
  • Vicia incana f. nugarrae Romo
  • Vicia stabiana Ten.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.