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Internal ID UUID643fd76a4e4bd779778430
Scientific name Vicia americana
Authority Muhl. ex Willd.
First published in Sp. Pl., ed. 4, 3: 1096 (1802)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Vicia oregana Torr. & A.Gray
Abacosa americana (Muhl. ex Willd.) Alef. Bonplandia (Hannover)9: 104 (1861)
Vicia americana subsp. americana Willd.
Vicia americana subsp. truncata (Nutt.) Á.Löve & D.Löve Taxon 31: 347. 1982
Vicia durbrowi Eastw.

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Language Common/alternative name
English american vetch
English purple vetch
Arabic بيقية أمريكية
Persian ماشک آمریکایی
nv chʼiidą́ą́tsʼóóz

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Name Authority First published in
Vicia americana var. americana Unknown
Vicia americana var. minor Hook. Fl. Bor.-Amer.1: 157 (1831)

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  • Northern America
    • Eastern Canada
      • Ontario
      • Québec
    • Mexico
      • Mexico Central
      • Mexico Gulf
      • Mexico Northeast
      • Mexico Northwest
      • Mexico Southwest
    • North-central U.S.A.
      • Illinois
      • Iowa
      • Kansas
      • Minnesota
      • Missouri
      • Nebraska
      • North Dakota
      • Oklahoma
      • South Dakota
      • Wisconsin
    • Northeastern U.S.A.
      • Indiana
      • Michigan
      • New Jersey
      • New York
      • Ohio
      • Pennsylvania
      • West Virginia
    • Northwestern U.S.A.
      • Colorado
      • Idaho
      • Montana
      • Oregon
      • Washington
      • Wyoming
    • South-central U.S.A.
      • New Mexico
      • Texas
    • Southeastern U.S.A.
      • District Of Columbia
      • Maryland
      • Virginia
    • Southwestern U.S.A.
      • Arizona
      • California
      • Nevada
      • Utah
    • Subarctic America
      • Alaska
      • Northwest Territorie
      • Yukon
    • Western Canada
      • Alberta
      • British Columbia
      • Manitoba
      • Saskatchewan

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000174340
Canadensys 5941
USDA Plants VIAM
Tropicos 13034613
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:524512-1
The Plant List ild-20464
Open Tree Of Life 445950
NCBI Taxonomy 200966
Nature Serve 2.156667
IPNI 524512-1
iNaturalist 53320
GBIF 2975204
Freebase /m/02vpppd
WisFlora 5377
FEIS plants/forb/vicame
EPPO VICAA
EOL 640607
Calflora (Californian flora) 10447
USDA GRIN 41449
Wikipedia Vicia_americana

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Invasive earthworms can change understory plant community traits and reduce plant functional diversity Thouvenot L, Ferlian O, Craven D, Johnson EA, Köhler J, Lochner A, Quosh J, Zeuner A, Eisenhauer N iScience 29-Jan-2024
PMCID:PMC10867650
doi:10.1016/j.isci.2024.109036
PMID:38361612
Legume germination is delayed in dry soils and in sterile soils devoid of microbial mutualists: Species‐specific implications for upward range expansions Keeler AM, Rafferty NE Ecol Evol 23-Aug-2022
PMCID:PMC9398887
doi:10.1002/ece3.9186
PMID:36016820
A Global Overview of Diversity and Phylogeny of the Rust Genus Uromyces Gautam AK, Avasthi S, Verma RK, Sushma, Niranjan M, Devadatha B, Jayawardena RS, Suwannarach N, Karunarathna SC J Fungi (Basel) 14-Jun-2022
PMCID:PMC9224716
doi:10.3390/jof8060633
PMID:35736116
Complete Chloroplast Genome of the Inverted Repeat-Lacking Species Vicia bungei and Development of Polymorphic Simple Sequence Repeat Markers Jo IH, Han S, Shim D, Ryu H, Hyun TK, Lee Y, Kim D, So YS, Chung JW Front Plant Sci 16-May-2022
PMCID:PMC9149428
doi:10.3389/fpls.2022.891783
PMID:35651765
The role of genus and life span in predicting seed and vegetative trait variation and correlation in Lathyrus, Phaseolus, and Vicia Herron SA, Rubin MJ, Albrecht MA, Long QG, Sandoval MC, Miller AJ Am J Bot 22-Dec-2021
PMCID:PMC9306869
doi:10.1002/ajb2.1773
PMID:34634144
Partial shading by solar panels delays bloom, increases floral abundance during the late-season for pollinators in a dryland, agrivoltaic ecosystem Graham M, Ates S, Melathopoulos AP, Moldenke AR, DeBano SJ, Best LR, Higgins CW Sci Rep 02-Apr-2021
PMCID:PMC8018959
doi:10.1038/s41598-021-86756-4
PMID:33811234
Modeling geogenic and atmospheric nitrogen through the East River Watershed, Colorado Rocky Mountains Maavara T, Siirila-Woodburn ER, Maina F, Maxwell RM, Sample JE, Chadwick KD, Carroll R, Newcomer ME, Dong W, Williams KH, Steefel CI, Bouskill NJ PLoS One 24-Mar-2021
PMCID:PMC7990236
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0247907
PMID:33760812
Presence of a dominant native shrub is associated with minor shifts in the function and composition of grassland communities in a northern savannah Peetoom Heida I, Brown C, Dettlaff MA, Oppon KJ, Cahill JF Jr AoB Plants 23-Feb-2021
PMCID:PMC8050699
doi:10.1093/aobpla/plab011
PMID:33889378
Identification of Vicia Species Native to South Korea Using Molecular and Morphological Characteristics Han S, Sebastin R, Wang X, Lee KJ, Cho GT, Hyun DY, Chung JW Front Plant Sci 09-Feb-2021
PMCID:PMC7900155
doi:10.3389/fpls.2021.608559
PMID:33633762
Examining the utility of DNA barcodes for the identification of tallgrass prairie flora Herzog SA, Latvis M Appl Plant Sci 24-Jan-2021
PMCID:PMC7845766
doi:10.1002/aps3.11405
PMID:33552747
Burrowing Richardson’s ground squirrels affect plant seedling assemblages via environmental but not seed bank changes Newediuk LJ, Hare JF Curr Zool 07-Oct-2019
PMCID:PMC7234076
doi:10.1093/cz/zoz047
PMID:32440282
Native seed, soil and atmosphere respond to boreal forest topsoil (LFH) storage Mackenzie DD, Naeth MA PLoS One 16-Sep-2019
PMCID:PMC6746386
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0220367
PMID:31525213
Specialization in plant–pollinator networks: insights from local-scale interactions in Glenbow Ranch Provincial Park in Alberta, Canada Villalobos S, Sevenello-Montagner JM, Vamosi JC BMC Ecol 06-Sep-2019
PMCID:PMC6731600
doi:10.1186/s12898-019-0250-z
PMID:31492127
Pest categorisation of non‐EU Cicadomorpha vectors of Xylella spp. Bragard C, Dehnen‐Schmutz K, Di Serio F, Gonthier P, Jacques M, Jaques Miret JA, Justesen AF, Magnusson CS, Milonas P, Navas‐Cortes JA, Parnell S, Potting R, Reignault PL, Thulke H, Van der Werf W, Civera AV, Yuen J, Zappalà L, Malumphy C, Lopes JR, Czwienczek E, MacLeod A EFSA J 28-Jun-2019
PMCID:PMC7009215
doi:10.2903/j.efsa.2019.5736
PMID:32626354
Expanding and testing fluorescent amplified fragment length polymorphisms for identifying roots of boreal forest plant species Metzler P, La Flèche M, Karst J Appl Plant Sci 08-Apr-2019
PMCID:PMC6476169
doi:10.1002/aps3.1236
PMID:31024780

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