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Purple vetch has been used commercially since the 1920s for forage, cover crops, and green manures. ... Like woollypod vetch, it produces excellent cool-season growth, but it blooms and matures later than woollypod vetch. Purple vetch leaves are markedly hairy, giving a silvery, downy appearance to shoot tips in the...
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www.sarep.ucdavis.edu/bifs/rec_species_chart-disked.htm
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Vicia americana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Vicia americana is a species of legume in the vetch genus known by the common names American vetch and purple vetch . It includes a subspecies known as mat vetch . It is a climbing perennial ...
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Flowers with red-purple or violet upper petals (standard) and white lower petals. Flowers arranged in a loose raceme of 3 to 8 flowers. Stems smooth. Leaves divided into 4 to 9 pairs of opposite leaflet and an apical tendril. ... Habitat: Purple Vetch is found in meadows and along the shores of ponds and lakes.
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www.nearctica.com/flowers/legume/vicia/Vameric.htm
www.nearctica.com/flowers/legume/vicia/Vameric.htm
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Newago County, July 15, 1999 ... Found along shores and in meadows.
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www.carsoncity.k12.mi.us/~hsstudent/wildflowers/purplev...
www.carsoncity.k12.mi.us/~hsstudent/wildflowers/purplevetch.html
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Purple Vetch; Scientific Name: (Vicia dasycarpa); Definition: This pretty flower is in the Legume Family (Fabaceae), as are so many of the pretty wildflowers. Vetch has a weak stem and can be found growing upright, but more often sprawling or climbing.
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www.lone-star.net/wildflowers/flower47.html
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This year I suddenly have purple vetch taking over my front yard and I don't know how to get rid of it. I've tried pulling it, smothering it, spraying it... but there's so much of it and it keeps coming back.
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northwestgardening.tribe.net/thread/c964a846-9229-4a32-...
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We do not yet have descriptive information on this species. Please try the buttons above to search for information from other sources. ... Distribution Comments; Widespread in North America. Observations in Montana: 0; Observations in Montana Counties; ... Species - American Purple Vetch - Vicia americana...
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fieldguide.mt.gov/detail_PDFAB43020.aspx
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In general purple vetch resembles hairy vetch, with pubescent stems and pods. It is, however, the least winter hardy of the commonly grown vetches, and temperatures below 20 F. generally cause injury. It is grown mainly in milder sections of California where it is primarily a hay crop.
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www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/Crops/Purple_vetch.html
www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/Crops/Purple_vetch.html
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George | all galleries >> Field Photography II > Purple Vetch ... previous | next ... 10-JUN-2003...
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