Vicia villosaRoth

hairy vetch

WFO wfo-0000212804 Accepted WFO 2026-06 6 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–f

Vicia villosa, photographed by Вячеслав Юсупов
fig. a Вячеслав Юсупов, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-12 / obs. 205586957
Vicia villosa, photographed by Cleveland Powell
fig. b Cleveland Powell, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205823224
Vicia villosa, photographed by Yann Kemper
fig. c Yann Kemper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204129672
Vicia villosa, photographed by Michael Bunsen
fig. d Michael Bunsen, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205030496
Vicia villosa, photographed by Yann Kemper
fig. e Yann Kemper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203938210
Vicia villosa, photographed by Jane Concannon
fig. f Jane Concannon, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205602730

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 5,795 observations

Peak flowering in May, from 5,795 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 72 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 bertolonii Gren. & Godr.
  • Cracca boissieri (Heldr. & Sartori) Alef.
  • Cracca dasycarpa (Ten.) Alef.
  • Cracca elegantissima Shuttlew.
  • Cracca microphylla (d'Urv.) Alef.
  • Cracca pseudocracca (Bertol.) Alef.
  • Cracca varia Host
  • Cracca varia (Host) Gren. & Godr.
  • Cracca villosa (Roth) Gren. & Godr.
  • Cracca villosa (Roth) Gren. & Godr.
  • Cracca villosa subsp. varia (Host) Berher
  • Ervum varium (Host) Brot.
  • Ervum villosum (Roth) Trautv.
  • Vicia ambigua Guss.
  • Vicia bivonae Ser.
  • Vicia boissieri Heldr. & Sartori
  • Vicia dasycarpa Ten.
  • Vicia dasycarpa var. rigida Halácsy
  • Vicia elegantissima Rouy
  • Vicia elegantissima Shuttlew. ex Rouy,
  • Vicia garbiensis Font Quer & Pau
  • Vicia glabrescens Fritsch
  • Vicia glabrescens Kern.
  • Vicia glabrescens (W.D.J.Koch) Heimerl

and 48 more.

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.

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