| Scientific Name: | Vicia sativa |
| Common Name: | common vetch |
| Family Name: | Fabaceae |
| Origin: | Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Annual, Weed (horticultural) |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading |
| Form: | Climbing |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Urban agriculture |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | |
| Leaves: | Compound, Alternate, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Glabrous, Even-pinnate, Oblong, Entire |
| Flowers: | Flowers paired, Purple, Pink, May-Jun |
| Fruit: | Legume, Brown, Jul-Aug |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Hollow, four-sided, stems to 2m long; leaves alternate, compound, and stipulate, with 3-8 pairs of linear, lance-shaped, leaflets up to 3.5 centimeters long, each ending in a branched tendril; flowers pea-like, occur in the leaf axils, solitary or in pairs, petals 1-3cm long, usually bright pink to purple; legume to 7cm long. | |