Vicia onobrychioides

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Vicia onobrychioides, photographed by Felicia Seichter — fig. c Felicia Seichter, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194773529

Vicia onobrychioides, photographed by Emanuele Santarelli — fig. e Emanuele Santarelli, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 134342373

Vicia onobrychioides, photographed by Quentin Groom — fig. f Quentin Groom, CC0 1.0 / obs. 133857402

Vicia onobrychioides, photographed by Daniel Cahen — fig. g Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 19919783

Vicia onobrychioides, photographed by Thomas Koffel — fig. h Thomas Koffel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 8413325

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Native range 13 botanical countries

Native distribution of Vicia onobrychioides, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Albania	ALB	EUROPE
Bulgaria	BUL
France	FRA
Greece	GRC
Italy	ITA
NW. Balkan Pen.	YUG
Portugal	POR
Spain	SPA
Switzerland	SWI
Türkiye-in-Europe	TUE
Algeria	ALG	AFRICA
Morocco	MOR
Tunisia	TUN

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 199 in flower of 199 examined

100%

Proportion of examined Vicia onobrychioides in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	0	0	too few examined
Feb	0	0	too few examined
Mar	0	0	too few examined
Apr	12	12	100%	76% to 100%
May	83	83	100%	96% to 100%
Jun	78	78	100%	95% to 100%
Jul	25	25	100%	87% to 100%
Aug	1	1	too few examined
Sep	0	0	too few examined
Oct	0	0	too few examined
Nov	0	0	too few examined
Dec	0	0	too few examined

Peak flowering in Apr. Each bar is the share of Vicia onobrychioides 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. 199 of 199 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 8 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.

Abacosa onobrychioides (L.) Alef.
Vicia onobrychioides subsp. alborosea Dobignard
Vicia onobrychioides subsp. onobrychioides
Vicia onobrychioides var. alborosea (Dobignard) Dobignard
Vicia onobrychioides var. angustissima Ser.
Vicia punctata Schleich. ex Pers.
Vicia violacea Dulac

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
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.

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