Vicia lutea

Yellow vetch (Vicia lutea)

The yellow vetch (Vicia lutea) is one in Central Europe rare and fickle -occurring plant species of the genus Vicia in the subfamily of the Fabaceae ( Faboideae ).

Description

The Yellow Vetch is an annual herbaceous plant. The approximately 20 to 60 cm stem grows ascending or climbing. The pubescence of the Yellow Vetch is very variable; they might be loose hair but also completely bald.

Marked with vines leaves are usually pinnate six to achtpaarig. The linealischen and elongated leaflets reach lengths of about 10 to 20 mm and widths from 3 to 5 mm.

The short- stalked flowers grow singly or rarely in pairs in the leaf axils. The flowers zygomorphen reach lengths of 20 to 25 mm. The two upper cup teeth are considerably shorter than the lower. The crown is colored bright yellow to lemon yellow, the plate can also assume reddish tones. The yellow vetch blooms mainly in the months of April to June.

The legumes is projecting rauhaarig, the hair sitting on a thick nodules.

Occurrence

The yellow vetch is a Mediterranean plant that is impermanent into Western and Central Europe.

Vicia lutea growing in cereal weeds companies. It prefers calcareous clay soils.

In Germany, the yellow vetch usually rare and impermanent occurs mainly in the warmer south-west of the area.

In Austria it is very rare, while it is distributed in Switzerland scattered all over the area.