Vicia craccaL.

tufted vetch

WFO wfo-0000214046 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Vicia cracca, photographed by Марина Садыкова
fig. a Марина Садыкова, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-12 / obs. 205687524
Vicia cracca, photographed by Марина Садыкова
fig. b Марина Садыкова, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205704511
Vicia cracca, photographed by Anastasia_Surkova
fig. c Anastasia_Surkova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205900010
Vicia cracca, photographed by Виктория Билоус
fig. d Виктория Билоус, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205383157
Vicia cracca, photographed by Lee
fig. e Lee, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204968775
Vicia cracca, photographed by SCNeill
fig. f SCNeill, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205248723
Vicia cracca, photographed by Ульяна Лалак
fig. g Ульяна Лалак, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205371672
Vicia cracca, photographed by Yurii Basov
fig. h Yurii Basov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204860341

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 6,599 observations

Peak flowering in Jun, from 6,599 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 59 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Cracca major Gren. & Godr.
  • Cracca major Godr. & Gren.
  • Cracca plumosa Timb.-Lagr.
  • Cracca pyrenaica Gren. ex Rouy & Foucaud
  • Cracca vulgaris Opiz
  • Ervum cracca (L.) Trautv.
  • Vicia australis Ten.
  • Vicia azurea Schur
  • Vicia cracca f. canescens Maxim.
  • Vicia cracca f. cracca
  • Vicia cracca f. etiamalba B.Boivin
  • Vicia cracca f. humilis Neuman
  • Vicia cracca f. leucantha Nakai
  • Vicia cracca f. macrophylla Maxim.
  • Vicia cracca f. pallidiflora Maxim.
  • Vicia cracca f. pulchra Druce
  • Vicia cracca subsp. cracca
  • Vicia cracca subsp. galloprovincinalis Asch. & Graebn.
  • Vicia cracca subsp. gerardi Gaudin
  • Vicia cracca subsp. gerardii Gaudin
  • Vicia cracca subsp. imbricata Rouy
  • Vicia cracca subsp. kitaibeliana (Rchb.) Soó
  • Vicia cracca subsp. oreophila (Zertova) Á.Löve & D.Löve
  • Vicia cracca subsp. vulgaris Schinz & R.Keller

and 35 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.