Vicia sativa L.
(Common Vetch)

Interactions where Vicia sativa is the victim or passive partner (and generally loses out from the process)

The following relationships have been collated from the published literature (see 'References').

Filters:

Affected Part		Summary			Taxon	Vernacular	Classification	References	Darwin Classification of Active Taxon	Active Taxon	Active Vernacular	Active Taxon Uncertain	Active State	Active Part	Active Stage	Relationship	Relationship Uncertain	Relationship Geography	Darwin Classification of Passive Taxon	Passive Taxon	Passive Vernacular	Passive Taxon Uncertain	Passive State	Passive Part	Passive Stage	Passive Taxon's significance to Active Taxon	Indoors etc	Season	Summary
		is foodplant of larva			Oxystoma pomonae	a seed weevil	Coleoptera: Apionidae	Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations, Bullock, J.A., 1992	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Apionidae/Oxystoma pomonae/	Oxystoma pomonae	a seed weevil				larva	Foodplant / feeds on			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fabales/Fabaceae/Vicia sativa/	Vicia sativa	common vetch								larva feeds on
		is parasitised by			Erysiphe pisi var pisi	a powdery mildew	Erysiphales: Erysiphaceae	An Introduction to British Powdery Mildews, Ing, B., 1990	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Erysiphales/Erysiphaceae/Erysiphe pisi var. pisi/	Erysiphe pisi var. pisi	a powdery mildew					Foodplant / parasite		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fabales/Fabaceae/Vicia sativa/	Vicia sativa	common vetch								parasitises
(live)		live is parasitised by pycnium			Uromyces viciae-fabae var viciae-fabae	Broad Bean Rust	Pucciniales: Pucciniaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Pucciniaceae/Uromyces viciae-fabae var. viciae-fabae/	Uromyces viciae-fabae var. viciae-fabae	broad bean rust				pycnium	Foodplant / parasite			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fabales/Fabaceae/Vicia sativa/	Vicia sativa	common vetch		live						pycnium parasitises live
(live)		live is parasitised by telium			Uromyces viciae-fabae var viciae-fabae	Broad Bean Rust	Pucciniales: Pucciniaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Pucciniaceae/Uromyces viciae-fabae var. viciae-fabae/	Uromyces viciae-fabae var. viciae-fabae	broad bean rust				telium	Foodplant / parasite			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fabales/Fabaceae/Vicia sativa/	Vicia sativa	common vetch		live						telium parasitises live
leaf		leaf is galled by			Megoura viciae	an aphid	Hemiptera: Aphididae	Provisional Keys to British Plant Galls, Stubbs, F.B. (Editor), 1986	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hemiptera/Aphididae/Megoura viciae/	Megoura viciae	an aphid					Foodplant / gall			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fabales/Fabaceae/Vicia sativa/	Vicia sativa	common vetch			leaf					causes gall of leaf
leaf		leaf is spotted by mostly hypophyllous colony of Ramularia anamorph			Ramularia sphaeroidea	an anamorphic fungus	Capnodiales: Mycosphaerellaceae	Monograph of Cercosporella, Ramularia and Allied Genera - Vol II, Braun, U., 1998	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Capnodiales/Mycosphaerellaceae/Ramularia sphaeroidea/	Ramularia sphaeroidea	an anamorphic fungus		mostly hypophyllous	colony	Ramularia anamorph	Foodplant / spot causer		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fabales/Fabaceae/Vicia sativa/	Vicia sativa	common vetch			leaf					mostly hypophyllous colony of Ramularia anamorph causes spots on leaf
leaf (live)		live leaf may be infected and damaged by Botrytis dematiaceous anamorph			Botrytis fabae	Bean Chocolate Spot - causative organism	Helotiales: Sclerotiniaceae	British Parasitic Fungi, Moore, W.C., 1959	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Helotiales/Sclerotiniaceae/Botrytis fabae/	Botrytis fabae	bean chocolate spot - causative organism				Botrytis dematiaceous anamorph	Foodplant / pathogen		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fabales/Fabaceae/Vicia sativa/	Vicia sativa	common vetch		live	leaf					Botrytis dematiaceous anamorph infects and damages live leaf
leaf (live)		live leaf is parasitised by amphigenous uredium			Uromyces viciae-fabae var viciae-fabae	Broad Bean Rust	Pucciniales: Pucciniaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Pucciniaceae/Uromyces viciae-fabae var. viciae-fabae/	Uromyces viciae-fabae var. viciae-fabae	broad bean rust		amphigenous		uredium	Foodplant / parasite			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fabales/Fabaceae/Vicia sativa/	Vicia sativa	common vetch		live	leaf					amphigenous uredium parasitises live leaf
leaf (live)		live leaf is parasitised by mostly hypophyllous aecium			Uromyces viciae-fabae var viciae-fabae	Broad Bean Rust	Pucciniales: Pucciniaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Pucciniomycetes/Pucciniales/Pucciniaceae/Uromyces viciae-fabae var. viciae-fabae/	Uromyces viciae-fabae var. viciae-fabae	broad bean rust		mostly hypophyllous		aecium	Foodplant / parasite			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fabales/Fabaceae/Vicia sativa/	Vicia sativa	common vetch		live	leaf					mostly hypophyllous aecium parasitises live leaf
leaflet (yellowed)		yellowed leaflet is parasitised by hypophyllous sporangium			Peronospora viciae	Pea Downy Mildew	Peronosporales: Peronosporaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Chromista/Oomycota/Peronosporea/Peronosporales/Peronosporaceae/Peronospora viciae/	Peronospora viciae	pea downy mildew		hypophyllous		sporangium	Foodplant / parasite			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fabales/Fabaceae/Vicia sativa/	Vicia sativa	common vetch		yellowed	leaflet					hypophyllous sporangium parasitises yellowed leaflet
seed		seed may contain larva			Bruchus pisorum	Pea Beetle, Spanish Bean Beetle	Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae	Atlas of the Seed and Leaf Beetles of Britain and Ireland, Cox, M.L., 2007	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Chrysomelidae/Bruchus pisorum/	Bruchus pisorum	pea beetle, spanish bean beetle				larva	Foodplant / internal feeder			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fabales/Fabaceae/Vicia sativa/	Vicia sativa	common vetch			seed					larva feeds within seed
seed		seed may contain larva			Bruchus rufipes	a seed beetle	Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae	Atlas of the Seed and Leaf Beetles of Britain and Ireland, Cox, M.L., 2007	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Chrysomelidae/Bruchus rufipes/	Bruchus rufipes	a seed beetle				larva	Foodplant / internal feeder			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fabales/Fabaceae/Vicia sativa/	Vicia sativa	common vetch			seed					larva feeds within seed
stem (live)		live stem is parasitised by sporangium			Peronospora viciae	Pea Downy Mildew	Peronosporales: Peronosporaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Chromista/Oomycota/Peronosporea/Peronosporales/Peronosporaceae/Peronospora viciae/	Peronospora viciae	pea downy mildew				sporangium	Foodplant / parasite			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fabales/Fabaceae/Vicia sativa/	Vicia sativa	common vetch		live	stem					sporangium parasitises live stem

Vicia sativa (Common Vetch) may also be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Vicia
(vetches)

FABOIDEAE
(vetches, peas and beans)

EU-DICOTS
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Herbaceous Plants
(herbaceous plants)

Author & Year	Title	Source
Braun, U., 1998	Monograph of Cercosporella, Ramularia and Allied Genera - Vol II	Phytopathogenic Hyphomycetes, 2, 493pp, IHW-Verlag
Bullock, J.A., 1992	Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations	11a, 24pp, Amateur Entomologists’ Society
Cox, M.L., 2007	Atlas of the Seed and Leaf Beetles of Britain and Ireland	336pp, Pisces Publications
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook	2nd (New Enlarged) edition, 868pp, The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd
Ing, B., 1990	An Introduction to British Powdery Mildews	Mycologist Vol 4 (1) et seq.
Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005	Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota	517pp, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Moore, W.C., 1959	British Parasitic Fungi	430pp, Cambridge University Press
Stubbs, F.B. (Editor), 1986	Provisional Keys to British Plant Galls	95pp, British Plant Gall Society (BPGS)

Subtaxon				Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of interactions	No of references
Vicia sativa ssp nigra Narrow-leaved Vetch				Subspecies		6 trophisms
Vicia sativa ssp sativa Common Vetch, Cultivated Vetch				Subspecies		1 trophisms

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Vicia sativa (Common Vetch)
Genus	Vicia (vetches)
Subfamily	FABOIDEAE (vetches, peas and beans)
Family	FABACEAE (vetches, peas, beans, accacias, wattles and sennas)
Order	FABALES (vetches, peas, beans and milkworts)
Subclass	EU-DICOTS (dicotyledonous flowering plants)
Class	MAGNOLIOPSIDA (flowering plants)
Phylum	TRACHEOPHYTA (vascular plants)
Kingdom	PLANTAE (plants)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Vicia sativa is also a member of:
Herbaceous Plants - herbaceous plants (via Faboideae)

NBN

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Vicia sativa (Common Vetch)

Vicia sativa (Common Vetch) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

Vicia
(vetches)

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may be relevant to Vicia sativa (Common Vetch):

Vicia
(vetches)

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

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