#Vicia sativa

[nora-yoko]

[raccaryusui]

近隣の銀行敷地内で

咲いていた、

「オオカラスノエンドウ」の花。

ソラマメ属。

別名：ヤハズエンドウ、

　　　カラスノエンドウ、

　　　オオヤハズエンドウ。

学名：Vicia sativa

撮影：iPhone14 Pro Max

[ayanos-pl]

口吻の手入れをするコアシナガバチ（4月14日）

[sigalrm]

Vicia sativa by Pascal Volk

[zosialynchphotography]

SE Milport Road and McBrod Ave, Milwaukie, Oregon

From top to bottom: geranium (Geranium sp.), sheep sorrel (Rumex acetosella), changing forget-me-not (Myosotis discolor), subterranean clover (Trifolium subterraneum), common vetch (Vicia sativa)

[liberalbum]

[thebotanicalarcade]

n51_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: The instructive picture book, or, Lessons from the vegetable world Edinburgh :Edmonston & Douglas, 87 Princes Street,1858. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/59644138

[konjaku]

矢筈豌豆[Yahazuendō] Vicia sativa

矢[Ya] : Arrow

筈[Hazu] : Nock of a bow

豌豆[Endō] : Pea

It sprouts in winter and grows rapidly as the weather warms in spring, and its creeper stems eventually grow to over one meter in height. The flowers, which are typical of the family Fabaceae, bloom from spring to early summer. The young shoots and bean pods are edible.

There is a traditional pattern called 矢絣[Yagasuri]. This is also called 矢筈絣. 絣[Kasuri] means a splashed pattern. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Yagasuri

母様も曾ては若い娘であつた。しかし若い娘の頃の事は忘れてしまつてゐらつしやる。それだもの若い娘の心持がおわかりになる筈はなかつた。ましてお須美が人知れぬ泪を袖にこぼした事を御存じの筈がない。

[Kāsama mo katsute wa wakai musume de atta. Shikashi wakai musume no koro no koto wa wasurete shimatte irassharu. Soredamono wakai musume no kokoromochi ga owakari ni naru hazu wa nakatta. Mashite osumi ga hitoshirenu namida wo sode ni koboshita koto wo gozonji no hazu ga nai.] Her mother was once a young girl, too. However, she has forgotten what it was like to be a young girl. Therefore, there was no way she could have known how a young girl felt. And moreover, there is no way she could have known that O-sumi had spilled unacknowledged tears on her sleeve. From 秘密[Himitsu](The Secret) by 竹久夢二[Takehisa Yumeji] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yumeji_Takehisa Source: https://www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/000212/files/1560_21030.html (ja)

The word はず|筈[Hazu] in the above means a matter of course. The term came about because it is natural for the nock(筈) and the bowstring to be properly fitted.

Yahazuendō is also known as 烏野豌豆[Karasunoendō]. 烏[Karasu] means crow and 野 means field.

[ethereal-forest-furry]

vetch!!! (Vicia sativa) (starring: one single wonderfully tiny ant)

vetch is an annual plant that grows in disturbed soil pretty much everywhere on earth OKAY HERES THE COOL PART it fertilizes the soil!!!

every plant needs loads of nitrogen its like The most important nutrient partly bc its one of the only ones that can just wash away with water even in healthy soil and also bc its in like Every Single Molecule in their entire body

and nitrogen is 70% of the air!!! but in the air it exists as two atoms stuck together and the plants cannot munch on that theyre picky okay. but some kinds of bacteria (and also lightning strikes??? which is so cool i love that) can split the atoms apart and put them in a form that the plants LOVE to eat - thats how nitrogen ends up in the soil, when those bacteria die.

but thats not rlly enough on its own 0.0 so some plants (like vetch, my bestie) pretty much just invented farming. like they have little nodes on their roots where they keep the bacteria safe and feed them and take care of them so they can grow and make so much nitrogen that they can give plenty to the plant - and then when the plant dies the soil is fertilized with loads of new nitrogen :3

plants that do this are called nitrogen fixers and they usually thrive in awful degraded soil with no nutrients where nothing else can grow- bc they can just eat from the fucking atmosphere!!!!! theyre SO important for building and feeding soil

vetch is rlly good at doing this so farmers like to plant big fields of it as fertilizer for whatever they plant next. u can do the same thing in a small garden with beans and peas if you leave them in the garden after they die, or plant nitrogen fixing trees and shrubs like redbuds and goumi berries so you can use cuttings from them to feed the soil!!! also clovers i love clovers sm

btw vetch is very much edible do go eat some. never tried it personally but lots of ppl have for thousands of years soooo yeah

[heather-rajendran]

Common vetch (Vicia sativa) wildflower photo I took recently, West Yorkshire, UK

[silversbotanical]

Common Vetch Watercolor (Vicia sativa)

Available on INPRNT

[raccaryusui]

職場に向かう途中の

遊歩道にある花壇で咲いていた、

紫色が可憐な「オオカラスノエンドウ」の

小さな花。

ソラマメ属。

別名：ヤハズエンドウ、

　　　カラスノエンドウ、

　　　オオハヤズエンドウ。

学名：Vicia Sarina

撮影：iPhone14 Pro Max

[ayanos-pl]

ヤハズエンドウにキアシナガバチ（4月3日）

[drhoz]

#1929 -  Vicia sativa - Common Vetch

Photo by @purrdence​, in Taupo, NZ

AKA garden vetch, tare or simply vetch.

A legume probably native to Europe North Africa, and Western Asia, but is now found in temperate and subtropical regions worldwide. Certainly weedy, and a nuisance in grainfields, but often grown as a green manure, livestock fodder or as a rotation crop. More than 500,000 hectares per year is grown in Australia. It’s also been part of the human diet since at least the early Neolithic.

Left to its own devices vetch can grow into tangled mats up to 2m deep. The flowers are usually purple, but sometimes white or yellow. Like the red clover posted earlier, often pollinated by bumblebees.  

During the early 20th century a mutant vetch arose with seeds resembling those of the lentil. This led to serious problems in lentil fields. However, the transition  to mechanised farming practices largely solved the problem

[reddirttown]

Language of Flowers: Vetch

In the language of flowers, the flower for today, August 13, is Vetch, which signifies shyness. Vicia orobus. Image from Wikipedia. Vicia sativa, known as the common Vetch, garden Vetch, tare, or simply Vetch, is a nitrogen-fixing leguminous plant in the family Fabaceae. ‘Vicia’ means ‘binder’ in Latin; this was the name used by Pliny for Vetch. Vetch is also referenced by Horace in his account…