| Scientific Name: | Vicia cracca |
| Common Name: | tufted vetch, bird vetch |
| Family Name: | Fabaceae |
| Origin: | Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial, Invasive plant, Vine or climber, Weed (horticultural) |
| Mature Size: | 1.3 - 2.0m x 2 - 3m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading |
| Form: | Climbing |
| Texture: | Fine |
| Landscape Uses: | |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | |
| Leaves: | Compound, Alternate, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Even-pinnate, Lanceolate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Raceme, Violet, May-Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep-Oct |
| Fruit: | Legume, Brown, Jul-Aug-Sep |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Aggressive choking weed; leaves compound, pinnate with linear leaflets, tendrils at leaf ends; inflorescence a raceme, florets violet to purple, narrow; fruit a small brown legume. | |