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Common Vetch🌿
Vicia sativa
ヤハズエンドウ（カラスノエンドウ）
A winter annual found along roadsides and in grasslands in spring. Bears reddish-purple papilionaceous flowers and produces black pods resembling snap peas. Climbs using tendrils that coil around other plants and structures. Named 'karasu-no-endou' (crow's pea) because the pods turn black when ripe.
Identification Points
- ✓Reddish-purple papilionaceous flowers (1-3 per leaf axil)
- ✓Tendrils at leaf tips
- ✓Odd-pinnately compound leaves
- ✓Ripe pods turn black and twist open
Habitat
Roadsides, grasslands, field margins
Season
March to June (flowers)
3D Specimen Model
Kyushu University, Shikano Lab (CC0)
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Leaf arrangement
Alternate
Leaf type
Compound
Venation
Pinnate
Leaf margin
Entire
Leaf shape
Ovate
Growth form
Herb
Petal count
5 petals
Petal fusion
Free
Flower color
Purple
Flowering season
Spring
Habitat
Roadside
Ovary position
Superior
Phylogenetic Positionマメ科 →
Phylogenetic Position
Angiosperms > Eudicots > Core eudicots > Fabales > Fabaceae
Divergence Era
Late Cretaceous to Paleogene (approx. 70–60 million years ago)
Sources & References
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