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	Nearctica - Eastern Wildflowers - Fabaceae - Hairy Vetch (Vicia villosa)
		The foliage of Cow Vetch is not hairy.
		The short stalk connecting the flower to the flower cluster (pedicel) of Cow Vetch appears to arise from the rear margin of the calyx, not the ventral margin.
		The leaflets of Spring Vetch are truncated and notched.
	www.nearctica.com /flowers/legume/vicia/Vvillos.htm (171 words)

	Cow Vetch (Vicia cracca) Species Page
		Cow vetch is a delicate climbing vine that measures approximately 1.2 m.
		The lavender or blue, bilaterally symmetrical flowers of the cow vetch are relatively small and are densely arranged in unilateral, drooping spikelets.
		The pod-like fruit of the cow vetch is small and carries a small number of seeds.
	www.bio.brandeis.edu /fieldbio/Wildflowers_Kimonis_Kramer/PAGES/COWVETCH_PAGE_FINAL.html (228 words)

	Tufted Vetch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tufted Vetch Vicia cracca, also occasionally known as Cow Vetch or Bird Vetch, is a common species of vetch native throughout most of North America, Europe and Asia.
		Tufted Vetch is widely used as a forage crop for cattle, and is beneficial to other plants because, like other leguminous plants, it enriches the soil in which it grows by its nitrogen-fixing properties.
		Tufted Vetch is also much appreciated by bees and butterflies as a source of nectar.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tufted_Vetch (438 words)

	Smooth Vetch (Vicia dasycarpa)
		The stems and leaf stalks of Smooth Vetch are hairless or sparsely hairy; in the latter case, these hairs are very short, fine, and appressed against the stems or stalks.
		Another species, Vicia cracca (Cow Vetch), has a similar appearance to the preceding species, except its flowers are smaller (about ½" long) and the calyxes of its flowers do not have a swollen appearance (each pedicel joins the calyx near the bottom, rather than the side).
		Both Smooth Vetch and Hairy Vetch differ from most other Vetches by their more abundant flowers (about 12-20 pairs per raceme), their eared stipules with narrow basal lobes, and the teeth of their calyxes (the lower teeth of each calyx are longer than the upper teeth).
	www.illinoiswildflowers.info /weeds/plants/sm_vetch.htm (803 words)

	Cow vetch and hairy vetch - Invasive plants: Minnesota DNR
		Cow vetch and hairy vetch (Vicia cracca, Vicia villosa)
		Pods of cow vetch are brownish lance-shaped and flat; pods of hairy vetch are gray to fl and hairy.
		Both vetches are not a threat to healthy native prairies at this time, but can be a problem in prairie reconstructions and on disturbed sites.
	www.dnr.state.mn.us /invasives/terrestrialplants/herbaceous/cowvetch.html (247 words)

	Hairy Vetch (Vicia villosa)
		The foliage of Hairy Vetch is palatable and can be eaten by mammalian herbivores, although there have reports of cattle being poisoned after feeding from bags that contained seeds of Hairy Vetch.
		Hairy Vetch can be distinguished from other vetches by the presence of spreading hairs on its stems, the large number of flowers on its racemes (5-20 pairs), and the shape of its calyx (lower teeth much longer than the upper teeth; a swollen base that protrudes behind the pedicel).
		However, Cow Vetch is a perennial plant that has appressed hairs on its stems and the calyx of its flowers doesn't have a protruding swollen base.
	www.illinoiswildflowers.info /weeds/plants/hairy_vetch.htm (821 words)

	DNR
		Cow vetch, also known as tufted vetch, is a native of Europe.
		Cow vetch grows in thickets, fields and roadsides.
		This plant may escape cultivation and spread in the wild, taking habitat from native plants.
	dnr.state.il.us /LANDS/EDUCATION/EXOTICSPECIES/Cowvetch.htm (80 words)

	Nearctica - Eastern Wildflowers - Fabaceae - Cow Vetch (Vicia cracca)
		Habitat: Cow Vetch is found in fields, pastures, and thickets.
		Similar Species: Cow Vetch is very similar to Hairy Vetch.
		The flowers of Purple vetch are bicolored, purple not blue, and in smaller spikes.
	www.nearctica.com /flowers/legume/vicia/Vcracca.htm (169 words)

	Species Description - Wellesley
		* The sweet nectar of cow vetch is enjoyed by bees and butterflies.
		* Vetch is in the bean family; its flowers look similar to pea and bean flowers, it produces pods, and it behaves like a bean or pea plant as it grows.
		When a vetch tendril comes in contact with another plant, it curls around it for support and continues to grow upward and outward.
	www.wellesley.edu /Biology/Web/Species/pvetchcow.html (89 words)

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		He says Vetch might know who she really is. Alex asks if this is part of Vetch's plan.
		Vetch admits he owes him that, and explains that he wanted to make sure Nicholas' education proceeded as it should.
		Vetch admits this, but says he can't seem to keep his hands out of things.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~fazzari/Amber/Wendi/Logs/Kris/Campaign.Log.51 (4573 words)

	Vetch, Schoolyard Habitat, Waddell School, Manchester CT USA
		I was rushed when it bloomed and did a quick check to compare a piece with the Audubon Nature Guide...as this didn't appear to be hairy (Hairy Vetch...Vicia villosa) I decided it was Cow Vetch.
		As there are 17 vetches in the Eastern United States, and only two are shown in my guide, perhaps this is neither Hairy or Cow.
		Hairy Vetch is an important fodder (plant grown to feed animals).
	waddell.ci.manchester.ct.us /id_cow-vetch.html (253 words)

	Blue, Tufted, or Cow Vetch or Tare - Flowers
		Dry fields blued with the bright blossoms of the tufted vetch, and roadsides and thickets where the angular vine sends forth vivid patches of color, resound with the music of happy bees.
		Ogle observed that the same bee always acts in the same manner, one sucking the nectar legitimately, another always biting a hole to obtain it surreptitiously, the natural inference, of course, being that some bees, like small boys, are naturally depraved.
		Let no reproach fall on these innocent plants that bear an opprobrious name: the tare of Scripture is altogether different, the bearded darnel of Mediterranean regions, whose leaves deceive one by simulating those of wheat, and whose smaller seeds, instead of nourishing man, poison him.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles19/flowers-18.shtml (481 words)

	Birds Online - Healthy nutrition for budgies - Cow Vetch
		cow vetch (Vicia cracca) are a highly appreciated delicacy for many budgies and other pet birds.
		Cow vetches reach a length of about 1.5 meters and sprawl along other plants where they fix themselves with their nooses.
		When the seeds of the cow vetch have become ripe, the seed vessels are fl (see right photo below).
	www.birds-online.de /nahrung/gruenfutter/vogelwicke_en.htm (130 words)

	Hairy Vetch (Vicia villosa) - Wild Flowers of Sleepy Hollow Lake - An All Creatures Photo Gallery - creation, earth, ...
		(Hairy Vetch - 01) This is a patch of hairy vetch growing in a field just beyond the mowed area at the side of the road.
		(Hairy Vetch - 03) The major characteristic of the hairy vetch is the white lower petals of the flowers.
		(Hairy Vetch - 04) This is a close up view of the hairy vetch flower with its upper purple and lower white petals.
	www.all-creatures.org /picb/wfshl-vetch-hairy.html (321 words)

	Andy's northern Ontario wildflowers, alien meadow wildflowers
		Cow vetch; also known as tufted vetch; introduced from Eurasia.
		When a vetch tendril comes in contact with another plant, the tendril curls around the other plant for support as it continues to grow upward and outward.
		Language of Flowers: Vetch means "I cling to thee".
	www.ontariowildflower.com /alien_wildflower_meadow.htm (1891 words)

	Photos and Field Guides, Part 2
		The first wildflower, with its yellow banners and white wings (legume flowers have a banner, 2 wings and 2 keel petals...see “Treasure of the Sierra Nevada”) was easy to pick out.
		It wasn’t a vetch, but a lotus; Lotus oblongifolius, known commonly as Torrey’s Lotus, Meadow Lotus and Narrow-leaf Lotus.
		About 20 types of vetch occur in North America, many of which are non-native.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/wildflowers_north_america/84791 (473 words)

	Page 51
		Vicia cracca (cow vetch) Fabaceae (5 5 10 1 perf or unisex; peri) 274 -- violet-blue, 20-50 fls, 1-sided raceme; lflts narrow
		Vicia lathyroides (spring vetch) Fabaceae (5 5 10 1 perf or unisex; peri) 272 -- blue or violet
		Vicia sepium (hedge vetch) Fabaceae (5 5 10 1 perf or unisex; peri) 273 -- blue-violet to white
	nynjctbotany.org /NYPL/PL51.html (974 words)

	Cow Vetch (Vicia cracca) - Wild Flowers of Sleepy Hollow Lake - An All Creatures Photo Gallery - creation, earth, ...
		Cow Vetch (Vicia cracca) - Wild Flowers of Sleepy Hollow Lake - An All Creatures Photo Gallery - creation, earth, environment, ecology, plants, trees, animal, animals, fine art, watercolor painting, paintings, photography, pic, pics, pictures, vegetation,
		(Cow Vetch - 03) As the cow vetch flowers mature, their deep violet color fades to a pinkish color.
		Our little beetle friend posed for this picture, too, which has been enlarged about 20 times the actual size when viewed in the full screen version.
	www.all-creatures.org /picb/wfshl-vetch-cow-03.html (177 words)

	A View of Earth
		Nearly hidden by the Madder and Vetch are the odd little flower spikes of Yellow Rattle.
		Climbing through the plaited Madder and the other vegetation in the meadow and binding it all into a jungle is the legume Blue, or Cow, Vetch.
		In a part of the ground where the vegetation is sparser, the Vetch's color intersperses here and there with the purple-blue of Blue-eyed Grass.
	www.woc.org /public/weasel-trax/hole/site/bits/ve10.htm (1332 words)

	Asakiyume mita - poisonous? or not?
		On the way we passed some pretty luxuriant cow vetch, just preparing to bloom...
		Vicia cracca, the Latin name for what I (and lots of others) call cow vetch (but the plant with that Latin name also gets called "bird vetch" or "tufted vetch" in everyday-speak), appears to be edible.
		And Vicia villosa, which is known as hairy vetch or large Russian vetch, supposedly has edible seeds and leaves, but a note says that in a laboratory the seeds were found to be potentially toxic, though no one has ever been poisoned from them.
	asakiyume.livejournal.com /30467.html (1071 words)

	Weeds Found on Maine Cranberry Beds
		Old-time dairy farmers found that feeding cudweed to a cow which had lost its cud helped to restore digestion.
		Notes: This is a climbing plant often used as a cover crop.
		There are 17 different Vetches in the northeastern US.
	www.umaine.edu /umext/cranberries/weedlist.htm (2899 words)

	Butterfly Garden News Winter 1996
		June is busting out with fields full of Oxeye Daisies, Common Hawkweed, and Cow Vetch in my corner of the country.
		Of the three, hawkweed is the hardest to figure, since sometimes a field of its yellow blossoms will be alive with skippers and crescents, and sometimes nary a butterfly can be found.
		The European Skipper is by far our commonest butterfly (last year, 95% of my June butterflies were European Skippers), and it occurs in lushest abundance on the light purple blossoms of Cow Vetch.
	www.naba.org /pubs/bgn97a/p3.html (1476 words)

	M.M.P.N.D. - Sorting Vicia names
		ENGLISH : Bird vetch, Bird's tare, Boreal vetch, Cow vetch, Tufted vetch.
		ENGLISH : Tiny vetch, Tare vetch, Hairy tare.
		ENGLISH : Sparrow vetch, Smooth vetch, Four-seed vetch, Smooth tare, Slender vetch, Lentil tare.
	www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au /Sorting/Vicia.html (1356 words)

	Phenology
		John's-wort) and Heracleum lanatum (cow parsnip) in flower, UWGB.
		Cornus racemosa (gray dogwood), Sambucus canadensis (fl elderberry) now in flower in Brown County.
		While I was out of town for three days the following plants began to flower on the UWGB campus and Cofrin Arboretum: Achillea millefolium (Yarrow), Vicia cracca (cow vetch), Lotus corniculatus (bird's-foot trefoil).
	www.uwgb.edu /biodiversity/phenology/2006/phen200606.htm (326 words)

	Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore - Wildflowers (U.S. National Park Service)
		Later in June the dunes are spotted in surprising colors of bright blue harebell, orange dune lily, yellow puccoon and false heather, purple beach pea, and rosy pink of wind anemone.
		By midsummer the fields will have yellow St. Johnswort, purple cow vetch and milkweed, white pearly everlasting, and orange butterfly milkweed.
		In the fall, there will be purple asters and yellow goldenrod.
	www.nps.gov /slbe/naturescience/wildflowers.htm (323 words)

	Invasive Plants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Crown Vetch (Coronilla varia) could be a charming little plant, with its pink bloom, if it didn't spread, and spread, and dominate all other plants in the field.
		Japanese honeysuckle (Lonicera Japonica) forms a fast-growing vine that twists its way up shrubs and small trees to finally smother them.
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	www.leoraw.com /hpenv/biod/invasive.htm (108 words)

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