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Slender Vetch

Vicia parviflora

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist. — (c) bryoflowra, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Easily confused with

Lentil VetchVicia tetrasperma

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Portugal.

Portugal	71
France	46
RegiÃ£o AutÃ³noma dos AÃ§ores	39
Occitanie	33
Spain	31
Italy	17
LISBOA	13
Illes Balears	11
Greece	11
Galicia	9

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

Nitrogen fixingDescends from a plant lineage commonly associated with nitrogen-fixing symbioses.Inferred from its group

Classification

Kingdom	Plants · Plantae
Phylum	Vascular Plants · Tracheophyta
Class	Dicots · Magnoliopsida
Order	Legumes, Milkworts, and Allies · Fabales
Family	Legumes · Fabaceae
Genus	Vetches · Vicia

Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
Photos and recordings: the creator and source are on each one.
How much to rely on each source

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Practise Slender Vetch with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.

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