Vicia disperma

Two-seeded vetch, Two-Seeded Vetch

Family: Fabaceae · Type: annual · Not Native

Two-seeded vetch is a naturalized annual found in the San Francisco Bay Area on roadsides and urban areas at elevations below 760 meters. Flowering from March to May, this plant produces blue flowers about 3.5 to 5 millimeters long in small clusters near the leaf tips. Growing with sprawling stems 20 to 60 centimeters long that are glabrous or slightly hairy, it has a delicate, spreading habit. Its compound leaves contain 12 to 20 oblong-elliptic leaflets, each 7 to 18 millimeters long with rounded tips that often end in a small point. The fruit is a pod 10 to 20 millimeters long, containing just two seeds.

Habitat: Roadsides, urban weed

Bloom period: Mar-May

Elevation: < 760 m

Bioregions: SnFrB

California counties: Alameda, Santa Cruz, Contra Costa, San Mateo, El Dorado

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.