Vicia villosa seed
LATIN NAME: VICIA VILLOSA
COMMON NAME: Hairy Vetch, Winter Vetch
The Vicia villosa, or hairy vetch, is one of the most useful and widely grown of the cover crops, and its climbing, hairy stems, its compound, bright-green leaves and its clusters of the purple, pea-like flowers have made it a plant of the fields and the gardens across the temperate regions of the world. It grows as a climbing or trailing, annual or biennial herb of the pea family, with the hairy, branching stems bearing alternate, compound, bright-green leaves with the many narrow leaflets and the tendrils, and bearing, in the spring and the early summer, the clusters of the purple or violet, pea-like flowers, followed by the small, flat, hairy seed pods. It is a species of the flowering herb, native to the regions of the Europe and the western Asia, while it has been introduced widely as a cover crop and a green manure, and it is known as the hairy vetch or the winter vetch.
Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology
The hairy vetch has a real and distinguished place in research. It has been studied in the agriculture and the soil science, since the Vicia villosa is a popular cover crop and a green manure which fixes the nitrogen and improves the soil, and the researchers have examined its cultivation, its nitrogen fixation and its value in the cropping systems, while the study of the cover crops has drawn attention in the international agricultural and ecological press. The plant has also been studied in the ecology and the forage science, since the hairy vetch is a forage plant for the livestock and a nectar source for the bees, and the researchers have examined its role in the ecosystems and its value as a forage, while the study of the forage legumes has been of continuing interest. The species has also been studied in the botany and the taxonomy, since it is a member of the pea family and a relative of the other vetches and the peas, and its relationships, its distribution and its many forms have been examined, while the purple, pea-like flowers and the hairy stems of the hairy vetch have been of interest to the botanists and the farmers. For a plant of such utility, the Vicia villosa has a rich and distinguished record of research.
Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications
To grow the Hairy Vetch from seed, the hairy vetch is a climbing, annual herb of the fields and the gardens, bearing the compound, bright-green leaves and the clusters of the purple, pea-like flowers in the spring. Its flowers are a magnet for the bees and the other pollinators, and its nitrogen-fixing roots improve the soil, while its dense, trailing growth gives a fine cover crop and a green manure. Its economic value is real: the hairy vetch is prized as a useful cover crop and a green manure for the fields and the gardens, and its value has drawn attention in the international agricultural press, while the nitrogen fixation and the easy cultivation have made it a favourite of the farmers and the gardeners, and the plant is a fine addition to the vegetable plot, the field and the wildflower meadow. To raise the hairy vetch, sow the seeds on the surface of pots of moist, open soil in a cool, sunny place, keep them gently watered, and grow the little plants on in the sun.
sow the seeds on the surface of pots of moist, open soil in a cool, sunny place, keep the young vetch gently watered, and grow the little plants on in the sun.
Sowing Spring / Summer: spring Sowing Autumn / winter: autumn Colors of flowers: purple Height: 80 cm Family: Fabacee Exhibition (Exposure): sun Common noun: hairy Vetch, Vetch of Russia, Vetch of Cerdanya, onguiculee Vetch, Wollypod Yetch, Hairy Yetch, Sand Yetch, Siberian Yetch Anti-interference: new
Annual plant generally, being able to be biennial even semi-long-lasting. His (Her, Its) root system, numerous pivots, has the capacity to favor the development of the biological activity, it has a restructuring action (share) on the ground, limited to the horizons of surface. In resistant frost (freeze) installed (settled) time, the Hairy Vetch xerophilic is a fate (species) with autumnal seeding more or less. The vetch is capable of dominating of very numerous new, it has the capacity to climb (soar) on the other plants, its competitiveness for the water and the nourishing elements and its capacity to secret allelopathic substances, the vetch is excellent year cleaning plant, capable of dominating most of the other plants.
Implanted before the cold season, she develops slowly in winter is ready to produce year important biomass from the first days of the spring. Very interesting biomass for the fixation of carbon, is also year excellent source of organic nitrogen. It is one of the most successful cover of plant for the fixation of atmospheric nitrogen. She has the capacity to develop on acid grounds, also tolerates basic grounds, and she is specially adapted to the light grounds, can grow on numerous types of grounds, provided that they are well drained. She does not support the clogging.
She shelters numerous arthropods of the ground and the predatory pests of insects, ladybirds, bugs as gold lacewings feed which we plant-eating insects (aphids, small caterpillars, thrips, leafhoppers, etc.). Bee, the vetch is interesting for its long blooming, occurring in a period when the absence of flowers bees weakens.
botany It is a vegetable, prostrate in semi – prostrate, herbaceous climbing and talkative, in branched out, bony (jagged) and relatively soft stalk. The seedling divided present, compound and pinnate (divided, made up and pinnate) sheets (leaves). His (her, its) Two cotyledons are not visible, hypogeous seeding. Pods are dehiscent. Not photosensitive, his (her, its) blooming is indefinite and can spread out over several months. In pure culture, its lianaissant port (bearing) makes that she (it) subsidies and does not exceed (overtake) 80 cms in 1 m of top, not lignified stalks, they can make until 4 m of length. His (her, its) sheets (leaves) are green to dark green at aim. They consist from 9 to 17 peers of oval, (opposed) opposite sepals. They end by spins (tendrils) from 2 to 3 branches, which allow him (her) to climb (soar) on any medium (medium) and which make that plants become muddled. The plant can seem white and woolly because of the long hairs which recover her (it), in particular on the lower face of sheets (leaves) and we the stalks. She (it) trains (forms) inflorescences, 10 in 40 flowers, carried (worn) by peduncles leaving of the base (basis) of sheets (leaves). Flowers (forming) training has tube from 12 to 20 mm long and are of purple color with blue (bruise), sometimes white. The young inflorescence trains (forms) was butt (stick) on which the very hairy buds develop. It is a self-pollinating plant, pollinated by insects. Shape of the pods brown, flat, from 20 to 40 mm long for 7 in 10 mm wide, containing in 2 8 seeds of dark gray color to black. His(her,its) system root consists of a central pivot and horizontal roots on which development of numerous nodules. This system root little powerful and little dense made that the implementing remains superficial.
- variety It is a excellent feed which allows to improve the operations of animals in a period of low (weak) availability in feed.
Hairy vetch – Vicia Villosa – Hairy Vetch – (fertilizer Green – Green Manure)
Category: Green manure, planting spring, planting fall, colors of the flowers, height, Antiparasite