page_title: Vicia
section_title: Selected species
hierarchical_section_title: Vicia / Selected species
caption_attribution_description: English: Vicia amoena
context_page_description: Vicia is a genus of about 140 species of flowering plants that are part of the legume family, and which are commonly known as vetches. Member species are native to Europe, North America, South America, Asia and Africa. Some other genera of their subfamily Faboideae also have names containing "vetch", for example the vetchlings or the milk-vetches. The broad bean is sometimes separated in a monotypic genus Faba; although not often used today, it is of historical importance in plant taxonomy as the namesake of the order Fabales, the Fabaceae and the Faboideae. The tribe Vicieae in which the vetches are placed is named after the genus' current name. Among the closest living relatives of vetches are the lentils and the true peas.
context_section_description: Vicia americana – American vetch, purple vetch, mat vetch
  Vicia amoena
  Vicia amurensis Oett. (= V. japonica sensu auct non A.Gray)
  Vicia andicola Kunth
  Vicia articulata Hornem. – bard vetch
  Vicia bakeri Ali (= V. sylvatica Benth.)
  Vicia basaltica Plitmann
  Vicia benghalensis L.
  Vicia biennis L.
  Vicia bithynica (L.) L. – Bithynian vetch
  Vicia bungei Ohwi
  Vicia canescens Labill.
  Vicia cappadocica Boiss. & Balansa
  Vicia caroliniana Walter – Carolina wood vetch
  Vicia cassubica L. – Kashubian vetch
  Vicia cracca – tufted vetch
  Vicia cuspidata Boiss.
  Vicia cusnae
  Vicia cypria Unger & Kotschy
  Vicia disperma DC. (= V. parviflora Loisel.)
  Vicia dumetorum L.
  Vicia ervilia – bitter vetch
  Vicia esdraelonensis Warb. & Eig
  Vicia faba – fava bean, broad bean, faba bean, horse bean, field bean, bell bean, tic bean
  Vicia galeata Boiss.
  Vicia galilaea Plitmann & Zohary
  Vicia gigantea Bunge
  Vicia graminea Sm.
  Vicia grandiflora Scop. (= V. kitaibeliana)
  Vicia hassei S.Watson
  Vicia hirsuta – hairy tare
  Vicia hololasia Woronow
  Vicia hulensis Plitmann
  Vicia hybrida L.
  Vicia japonica A.Gray
  Vicia lathyroides – spring vetch
  Vicia lilacina Ledeb.
  Vicia linearifolia Hook. & Arn. (= V. parviflora Hook. & Arn.)
  Vicia loiseleurii (M.Bieb.) Litv. (= V. pubescens sensu auct. fl. Cauc.)
  Vicia lutea – yellow vetch
  Vicia menziesii Spreng. – Hawaiian vetch
  Vicia minutiflora F.G. Dietr. – pygmyflower vetch
  Vicia monantha Retz. – single-flowered vetch
  Vicia narbonensis L. – Narbon bean, moor's pea (= V. serratifolia sensu auct. non Jacq.)
  Vicia nigricans – black vetch
  Vicia nigricans ssp. gigantea (= V. gigantea Hook.) – giant vetch
  Vicia onobrychioides L.
  Vicia oroboides Wulfen
  Vicia orobus DC. – upright vetch, wood bitter-vetch
  Vicia palaestina Boiss.
  Vicia pannonica – Hungarian vetch
  Vicia parviflora Cav. – slender vetch, slender tare (= V. tenuissima)
  Vicia peregrina L.
  Vicia pisiformis L. – pea-flowered vetch
  Vicia pseudo-orobus Fisch. & C. A. Mey.
  Vicia pubescens (DC.) Link
  Vicia pyrenaica
  Vicia sativa – common vetch, narrow-leaved vetch, tare
  Vicia sepium – bush vetch
  Vicia sericocarpa Fenzl
  Vicia serratifolia Jacq. – French vetch (formerly in V. narbonensis)
  Vicia sylvatica L. – wood vetch
  Vicia tenuifolia Roth. – fine-leaved vetch
  Vicia tenuifolia ssp. dalmatica (A.Kern.) Greuter (= V. dalmatica, V. tenuifolia sensu auct. non Roth.)
  Vicia tetrasperma – smooth tare, smooth vetch
  Vicia tsydenii Malyschev
  Vicia unijuga A.Br.
  Vicia villosa – hairy vetch, fodder vetch, winter vetch
  Plants formerly placed in Vicia include:
  Lens nigricans (as V. nigricans (M.Bieb.) Janka)
caption: Vicia amoena
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