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  • COMMON NAME: common vetch, garden vetch, tare or simply vetch.
  • ARABIC: بسلة أبليس
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Vicia sativa L.
  • SYNONYMS: Vicia bacla, Vicia communis, Vicia cornigera, Vicia cosentini, Vicia cuneata, Vicia erythosperma.
  • FAMILY: FABACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Sharjah
  • CATEGORIES: Medicinal (M) Fodder (F)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Slope (Rocky) Slope (Stony) Sandy
  • TYPES: Annual
Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007. https://www.floraofqatar.com/vicia_sativa.htm https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:525117-1 V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021. M.V.D jongbloed, G.R. Fuelner, B. Boer, A.R. Western. the comprehensive guide to the wild flowers of the United Arab Emirates. Environmental research and wildlife Development agency, Abu Dhabi, 2003.
Good grazing. Dried and powdered plant applied to hair for scalp irritations (dandruff).
Annual, decumbent, erect or climbing herb, 10-50 cm high, much branched below near the base, pubescent or nearly glabrous. Stipules 3-8 mm long, semihastate, entire or toothed. Leaves paripinnate, with 4-8 pairs of leaves, the rhachis ending in a branched tendils; leaflets variable in shape and size, linear to oblong, 5-25 mm long, 2-10 mm broad, acute to emarginate, mucronate. Flowers solitary or paired, sessile or subsessile in the axils, 8-25 mm long, purplish-blue; bracts minute. Calyx tubular, 5-7 mm long, appressed-hairy, the mouth of the tube not oblique, teeth equal. Style with a tuft of hairs on the outer upper surface. Pods linear, compressed, finely pubescent, dark brown, acuminate at apex, 20-50 mm long and 4-9 mm broad. Seeds oval, compressed, 2-4 mm in diameter, dark brown, blackish or mottled, smooth. Flowering from February to April.
Sandy soil, mountain slopes, often as a weed in fields.
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