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Slender Vetch
( Vicia hassei )
Vicia hassei
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About Slender Vetch (Vicia hassei)
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Vicia hassei
is a species of vetch known by the common names Hasse's vetch and slender vetch. It is native to the west coast of North America from Oregon through California to Baja California, where it occurs in many types of coastal and inland habitat.
Vicia hassei
is an annual herb. The leaves are made up of a few pairs of leaflets up to 2. 5 centimeters long often with flat, notched, or toothed tips. The inflorescence is usually a solitary flower or a pair of flowers with white or lavender corollas just under a centimeter long. The fruit is a legume pod 2 or 3 centimeters in length and a few millimeters wide which contains the seeds.
Plant Description
Plant Type
Annual herb, Vine
Size
0.7 - 2.3 ft tall
Flower Color
White, Lavender
Wildlife Supported
Butterflies & moths hosted ( 19
likely
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Orange Sulphur
Colias eurytheme
Colias eurytheme
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Silvery Blue
Glaucopsyche lygdamus
Glaucopsyche lygdamus
*
Clouded Sulphur
Colias philodice
Colias philodice
*
Queen Alexandra's Sulphur
Colias alexandra
Colias alexandra
*
Northern Cloudywing
Thorybes pylades
Thorybes pylades
*
Western Tailed-Blue
Cupido amyntula
Cupido amyntula
*
Western Sulphur
Colias occidentalis
Colias occidentalis
Landscaping Information
Natural Setting
Climate
Annual Precipitation: 9.0" - 51.0", Summer Precipitation: 0.13" - 1.47", Coldest Month: 39.9" - 56.3", Hottest Month: 60.7" - 80.2", Humidity: 0.10" - 27.17", Elevation: 9" - 4135"
Alternative Names
Common Names
: Hasse's Vetch
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Sources include:
Wikipedia
. All text shown in the "About" section of these pages is available under the
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License
. Plant observation data provided by the participants of the
California Consortia of Herbaria
, Sunset information provided by
Jepson Flora Project
. Propogation from seed information provided by the
Santa Barbara Botanical Garden
from "Seed Propagation of Native California Plants" by Dara E. Emery. Sources of plant photos include
CalPhotos
,
Wikimedia Commons
, and independent plant photographers who have agreed to share their images with Calscape. Other general sources of information include
Calflora
,
CNPS Manual of Vegetation Online
,
Jepson Flora Project
,
Las Pilitas
,
Theodore Payne
,
Tree of Life
,
The Xerces Society
, and information provided by CNPS volunteer editors, with special thanks to Don Rideout. Climate data used in creation of plant range maps is from
PRISM Climate Group, Oregon State University
, using 30 year (1981-2010) annual "normals" at an 800 meter spatial resolution.
Links:
Jepson eFlora Taxon Page
CalPhotos
Wikipedia
Calflora
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