EPPO Global Database

• EPPO Code: VICSA
• Preferred name: Vicia sativa
• Authority: Linnaeus

Native to the Euro-Mediterranean region, Siberia, Russian Far East, Central Asia, Western Asia, Himalayas, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, China (including Tibet), Korea, Japan, Mongolia, Sudan, Ethiopia. Cultivated as a fodder plant practically throughout the Euro-Mediterranean region and  Asian Russia. There are subspecies with a more local distribution. Introduced in Indochina, Malesia, northern China, southern Africa, North America, Mexico, Caribbean, South America (northwest, southern cone), New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand.