Vicia cracca, L.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1981, Flora Europaea. Volume 2. Rosaceae to Umbelliferae, Cambridge University Press : 131

10. V. cracca L. , Sp. Pl. 735 (1753).

Stems glabrous or pubescent with appressed hairs. Leaflets 6-15 pairs, 5-30 x 1-6 mm, linear to ovate-oblong. Racemes 10- to 30-flowered, dense. Lower calyx-teeth almost equalling tube; corolla 8-12 mm, bluishviolet; limb of the standard about equalling claw. Legume 10- 25 x 4-6 mm, with stipe shorter than calyx. Seeds with hilum of the circumference. 2« = 14, 27, 28, 30. Almost throughout Europe. All except Az BI?Lu Sb.

V. oreophila Zertova , Nov. Bot. Horti Bot. Univ. Carol. Prag. 1962: 51 (1962), described from mountains in Czechoslovakia, and probably occurring elsewhere in the mountains of C. & S. Europe and in Scandinavia, is probably best treated as a subspecies of 10. It is smaller, with the stems 5-30 cm, the leaflets 6-10 pairs, lanceolate, the racemes shorter than the leaves and the corolla 10-13 mm. It has 2zi = 28.