Vicia pannonica

Hungarian vetch

Family: Fabaceae · Type: annual · Not Native

Hungarian vetch is a naturalized annual found in southern coastal California, including Santa Barbara County and Sonoma County, in disturbed areas at elevations below 200 meters. Flowering from May to July, this plant produces pale yellow or yellow flowers with purple blotches, approximately 15 to 20 millimeters long. Growing with ascending or climbing hairy stems 30 to 80 centimeters tall, it has a delicate climbing habit. Its compound leaves have 10 to 20 elliptic-oblong to ovate leaflets, each 10 to 25 millimeters long with rounded or truncate tips, often featuring a single slender tooth at the end. The fruit is an elliptic to widely oblong pod 2 to 3 centimeters long with a short stalk-like base.

Habitat: Disturbed areas

Bloom period: May-Jul

Elevation: < 200 m

Bioregions: NCoRO (Sonoma Co.), SCo (Santa Barbara)

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