Vicia tetrasperma
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Vicia tetrasperma is a species from the large genus Vicia
. This vetch is native to Europe, Asia, and North Africa, and it can be found on other continents as an introduced species
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Vicia
Vicia is a genus of about 140 species of flowering plants commonly known as vetches. It is in the legume family . Member species are native to Europe, North America, South America, Asia and Africa. Some other genera of their subfamily Faboideae also have names containing "vetch", for example the...
. This vetch is native to Europe, Asia, and North Africa, and it can be found on other continents as an introduced species
Introduced species
An introduced species — or neozoon, alien, exotic, non-indigenous, or non-native species, or simply an introduction, is a species living outside its indigenous or native distributional range, and has arrived in an ecosystem or plant community by human activity, either deliberate or accidental...
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