Vicia pubescens(DC.) Link

WFO wfo-0000212777 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

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 pubescens, photographed by Mehdi Chetibi
fig. a Mehdi Chetibi, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-12 / obs. 197064098
Vicia pubescens, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. b Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 36349597
Vicia pubescens, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. c Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 36256383
Vicia pubescens, photographed by Mehdi Chetibi
fig. d Mehdi Chetibi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197064182
Vicia pubescens, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. e Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 36349843
Vicia pubescens, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. f Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 36256226
Vicia pubescens, photographed by Mehdi Chetibi
fig. g Mehdi Chetibi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197064306
Vicia pubescens, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. h Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 36349561

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Native range 23 botanical countries

Regions where Vicia pubescens is native: Algeria, Canary Is., Libya, Madeira, Morocco, Tunisia, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Türkiye, Baleares, Bulgaria, Corse, Greece, Italy, Kriti, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen., Portugal, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain AlgeriaLibyaMoroccoTunisiaCyprusEast Aegean Is.Lebanon-SyriaPalestineTürkiyeBulgariaCorseGreeceItalyKritiKrymNW. Balkan Pen.PortugalSiciliaSpain Canary Is.MadeiraBalearesSardegna
Native distribution of Vicia pubescens, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Baleares BAL EUROPE
Bulgaria BUL
Corse COR
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
Krym KRY
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Portugal POR
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Canary Is. CNY
Libya LBY
Madeira MDR
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN
Cyprus CYP ASIA-TEMPERATE
East Aegean Is. EAI
Lebanon-Syria LBS
Palestine PAL
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 13 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.

  • Ervum biebersteinii Guss.
  • Ervum gracile Steven
  • Ervum pubescens DC.
  • Ervum salisii J.Gay ex Lacaita
  • Ervum tetraspermum M.Bieb.
  • Vicia biebersteinii Guss.
  • Vicia ervoides Hampe
  • Vicia gemella subsp. pubescens (DC.) Rouy
  • Vicia salisii J.Gay ex Nyman
  • Vicia tetrasperma Moris
  • Vicia tetrasperma subsp. pubescens (DC.) Bonnier & Layens
  • Vicia tetrasperma subsp. pubescens (DC.) Asch. & Graebn.
  • Vicia tetrasperma var. pubescens DC.

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.