Vicia melanopsSm.

WFO wfo-0000214054 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 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 melanops, photographed by katunchik
fig. a katunchik, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-06-08 / obs. 134779016
Vicia melanops, photographed by Andre Hosper
fig. b Andre Hosper, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 84850056
Vicia melanops, photographed by Ljaž
fig. c Ljaž, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195549896
Vicia melanops, photographed by hecklemore
fig. d hecklemore, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191047236
Vicia melanops, photographed by Ljaž
fig. e Ljaž, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195549913
Vicia melanops, photographed by hecklemore
fig. f hecklemore, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191047257
Vicia melanops, photographed by Tandoğan ORUZ
fig. g Tandoğan ORUZ, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 119809092
Vicia melanops, photographed by Tandoğan ORUZ
fig. h Tandoğan ORUZ, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 119809110

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Native range 10 botanical countries

Regions where Vicia melanops is native: East Aegean Is., Türkiye, Albania, Bulgaria, France, Greece, Italy, NW. Balkan Pen., Sicilia, Türkiye-in-Europe East Aegean Is.TürkiyeAlbaniaBulgariaFranceGreeceItalyNW. Balkan Pen.SiciliaTürkiye-in-Europe
Native distribution of Vicia melanops, 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
Bulgaria BUL
France FRA
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Sicilia SIC
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
East Aegean Is. EAI 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.

Flowering 50 in flower of 50 examined

Peak flowering in Apr. Each bar is the share of Vicia melanops observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 50 of 50 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 10 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 7 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.

  • Hypechusa tricolor Alef.
  • Vicia loiseaui (Alleiz.) Fridl.
  • Vicia melanops var. loiseaui Alleiz.
  • Vicia melanops var. melanops
  • Vicia melanops var. tricuspis Bornm.
  • Vicia pichleri Huter
  • Vicia tricolor Sebast. & Mauri

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.