Fabaceae
Bush vetch
Vicia sepium
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Vicia
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Common names
By language (37)
- Arabic
- بيقية السياج
- arz
- بيقية السياج
- Asturian
- Arbeyera
- Belarusian
- Гарошак плотавы, Ляда, Мышак
- Bulgarian
- Горска глушина
- Catalan
- Veça borda
- Chinese
- 野豌豆, 滇野豌豆, 黑荚巢菜
- csb
- Łąkòwô wika
- Czech
- Vikev plotní
- Danish
- Gærde-Vikke
- Dutch
- Heggenwikke
- English
- Bush vetch, Hedge vetch
- Estonian
- Aed-hiirehernes
- Finnish
- Aitovirna
- French
- Vesce des haies, Vesce sauvage
- German
- Zaun-Wicke, Zaunwicke
- hsb
- Łučna woka
- Hungarian
- Gyepűbükköny
- Icelandic
- Giljaflækja
- Irish
- Peasair fhiáin
- kw
- Gwegbys an ke
- Latvian
- Žoga vīķis
- Macedonian
- Крајплотна глушина
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Gjerdevikke
- Norwegian Nynorsk
- Gjerdevikke
- Polish
- Wyka płotowa
- Portuguese
- Ervilhaca-dos-lameiros
- Russian
- Горошек заборный, Вика заборная, Горошек призаборный
- Slovak
- Vika plotná
- Slovenian
- Obplotna grašica
- Spanish
- Alverja, Alverjana, Arveja, Arveja silvestre, Mata trepadera, Vera, Veza
- Swedish
- Häckvicker
- Tatar
- Койма борчагы
- Turkish
- Çalı fiği
- Ukrainian
- Горошок плотовий
- vep
- Aidver'hernhut
- Welsh
- Ffacbysen y cloddiau
Synonyms
- Atossa sepium (L.) Alef.
- Atossa sepium var. angustifolia Alef.
- Atossa sepium var. ochroleuca (DC.) Alef.
- Atossa sepium var. subrotunda (Ser.) Alef.
- Faba sepium (L.) Bernh.
- Vicia drymeja Schur
- Vicia eriocalyx (Čelak.) Landolt
- Vicia montana Froel. ex W.D.J.Koch
- Vicia oxyphylla Schur
- Vicia pratensis Wallr.
- Vicia pseudosepium Nyman
- Vicia rotundifolia Gilib.
- Vicia separia Dulac
- Vicia sepium subsp. eriocalyx (Čelak.) Holub
- Vicia sepium subsp. eriocalyx (Čelak.) G.H.Loos
- Vicia sepium var. alba Gray
- Vicia sepium var. albiflora Gaudin
- Vicia sepium var. angustifolia Schur
- Vicia sepium var. angustifolia W.D.J.Koch
- Vicia sepium var. anomala Boenn.
- Vicia sepium var. capsella Ser.
- Vicia sepium var. eriocalyx Čelak.
- Vicia sepium var. hartii Akeroyd
- Vicia sepium var. longisepala Ekutim.
- Vicia sepium var. microphylla Schur
- Vicia sepium var. montana W.D.J.Koch
- Vicia sepium var. nana Gaudin
- Vicia sepium var. ochroleuca DC.
- Vicia sepium var. ovata Schur
- Vicia sepium var. parvifolia Carion
- Vicia sepium var. pubescens Behm
- Vicia sepium var. sepium
- Vicia sepium var. subrotunda Ser.
- Vicia sepium var. vulgaris Gaudin
- Vicia sordida Salisb.
- Vicia tricolor Schur
- Vicioides sepium (L.) Moench
- Wiggersia sepium (L.) G.Gaertn., B.Mey. & Scherb.
Flowers
- In flower
- April to June (from 2,462 flowering iNaturalist observations worldwide)
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb, Vine
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Canada: introduced, Greenland: introduced, Lower 48 states: introduced
Photos
FlowerPhoto: cigazze, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Verena Fisch, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Георгий Виноградов (Georgy Vinogradov), CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Ingimar, CC BY-SA 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Jeffdelonge at French Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Pto, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: AnRo0002, CC0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Stanislav Murashkin, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: AnRo0002, CC0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Camille Boucher, CC0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: AnRo0002, CC0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Tatyana Davidova, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.