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Fabaceae
Common vetch
Vicia sativa
Also known as Tare, Garden vetch, Spring vetch
Flowering Plants · Native Plants · Legume · Nitrogen-Fixing · Flowers · Groundcover · Wildflower · Purple · Soil-Improvement · Naturalized
Common vetch is a nitrogen-fixing legume that produces attractive purple flowers and serves as excellent ground cover. It requires minimal care once established and actually improves soil quality by adding nitrogen. Best used in wildflower gardens or areas where naturalized growth is welcome.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 5 hours
- Watering
- Light to moderate watering, allowing soil to dry between waterings · Every 10-14 days
- Maintenance
- Low
- Soil
- loam
- Soil pH
- 6–7
- Temperature
- -30°F to 95°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
- Propagation
- Seed
Hardiness
USDA 4a-10b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Mature height
- 2 ft – 5 ft
- Spread
- 16 in
- Spacing
- 8 in apart
- Growth rate
- Fast
- Root depth
- Medium
- Flowers
- Purple
- Foliage
- Coarse
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Afghanistan, Alabama, Albania, Algeria, Altay, Amsterdam-St.Paul Is, Angola, Argentina Northeast, Argentina South, Arkansas, Assam, Austria, Azores, Baleares, Baltic States, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Bermuda, Brazil South
- Attracts
- Bees, Butterflies
Sources: trefle, usda
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