Image to followAI-generated illustrationVicia hirsuta
Vicia hirsuta
FamilyGenus: Vicianative in Germany
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Species
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Interactions
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About this species
A native annual climbing plant of sunny, moderately moist places on normal soils, producing tiny whitish-violet flowers from April to June and usually reaching about 32 cm in height.
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PollinationFlower visit
Ecological significance
As a native wild plant, Vicia hirsuta forms part of natural open-habitat communities; no negative ecological impacts are reported.
Annual cycle
An annual speciesseeds germinate in spring, the plants climb and flower from April to June, set seed and then die back by late summer or early autumn.
Standort & Merkmale
Light
Sonne
Moisture
Frisch (Mäßig feucht)
Soil
Mittelzehrer (Normaler Boden)
Flowering period
Apr – Jun
Soil reaction
Mäßig sauer bis neutral
Bioregion
Continental
Growth form
Kletterpflanze
Woodiness
Nicht verholzt
Leaf type
Breitblättrig
Plant height
0.316 m
Morphological traits: TRY ID3 (CC BY 3.0) & TRY ID81 (CC BY)
Pollen
0.0074 mg/Blüte
Pflege & Anbau
Grow in full sun on any normal, moderately moist garden soil. As a climbing annual it benefits from a light support or can be allowed to scramble through other plants. Sow seed directly in spring. No special maintenance is needed.
Scientific profile
Vicia hirsuta is an annual climbing plant, slender and often branched, with a pubescent stem. Its leaves are pinnate with oblong-linear leaflets and bear branched tendrils. The flowers are whitish-violet, appearing in few-flowered racemes. The pods are small, dark brown to blackish and pubescent. It grows in sunny, open places on fresh, moderately moist, medium-fertility soils. In Great Britain it is a native wild plant.
Pollinators & visitors
12 Arten interagieren mit dieser Pflanze
Bombus lucorumBombus jonellusBombus lapidariusAnthidium punctatumElkalyce argiadesPolyommatus icarusThymelicus sylvestrisLasioglossum zonulumApis melliferaOulema melanopusAndrena ovatulaBombus hortorum
Other flower visitors
4 other species visit the flowers
Sources & data origin
•Interaktionsdaten via GloBI (CC-BY 4.0)
•pollinator_interactions
•Baden-Böhm F, App M, Thiele J (2022) — The FloRes Database: A floral resources trait database for pollinator habitat-assessment generated by a multistep workflow. Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut, Dryad, DOI: 10.5061/dryad.djh9w0w29 (CC0)
•FloraWeb / BfN
•EIVE 1.0 — Dengler et al. (2023), DOI: 10.3897/VCS.98324 (CC BY 4.0)
•GBIF Backbone Taxonomy — GBIF Secretariat (2024), DOI: 10.15468/39omei (CC BY 4.0)
•TRY Categorical Traits (ID3) — Kattge et al. (2012), DOI: 10.17871/TRY.3 (CC BY 3.0)
•TRY Global Spectrum (ID81) — Díaz et al. (2016/2021), DOI: 10.17871/TRY.81 (CC BY)
•Govaerts R et al. (2025) — World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP) v14. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. DOI: 10.34885/xs7h-ze42 (CC BY 4.0)
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