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§1 Plant
Vicia grandiflora Scop.
vernacular large yellow vetch — species · Fabaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb, Vine
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Fabaceae Lindl.
- Genus
- Vicia
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 148 counties across 16 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- None
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- None
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- None
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- 37 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 110 min.
- Precipitation
- 32–58 in/yr
- pH range
- 6–6.9
- Root depth
- 10 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Crown
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 2 ft
- Foliage texture
- Fine
- Foliage colour
- Dark Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Moderate
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Fruit colour
- Black
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- High
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Spring
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 32,000
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- High
- Graze palatability
- High
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- High
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 148 counties across 16 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 10 I ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 6 I ▾
Florida view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 12 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 5 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 6 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 16 I ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 2 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 4 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 7 I ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 26 I ▾
- Burke 37023
- Craven 37049
- Durham 37063
- Greene 37079
- Harnett 37085
- Hertford 37091
- Hoke 37093
- Johnston 37101
- Jones 37103
- Lee 37105
- Lenoir 37107
- Martin 37117
- Mecklenburg 37119
- Moore 37125
- Nash 37127
- New Hanover 37129
- Orange 37135
- Pitt 37147
- Robeson 37155
- Rowan 37159
- Union 37179
- Vance 37181
- Wake 37183
- Warren 37185
- Washington 37187
- Wilson 37195
South Carolina view state ↗ 17 I ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 27 I ▾
- Accomack 51001
- Caroline 51033
- Charlotte 51037
- Chesapeake (city) 51550
- Chesterfield 51041
- Cumberland 51049
- Essex 51057
- Fairfax 51059
- Fauquier 51061
- Greensville 51081
- Hanover 51085
- Henrico 51087
- Isle of Wight 51093
- Lunenburg 51111
- New Kent 51127
- Northampton 51131
- Northumberland 51133
- Nottoway 51135
- Pittsylvania 51143
- Prince Edward 51147
- Southampton 51175
- Spotsylvania 51177
- Suffolk (city) 51800
- Sussex 51183
- Virginia Beach (city) 51810
- Warren 51187
- York 51199
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/VIGR ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2974901 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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