This sprawling member of the Pea family is widespread in the Mediterranean region, but absent from most of the islands
Black-Eyed Vetch Care
Vicia melanops



The flower and leaves of this plant make it easily recognisable as a member of the Pea family, but the colours of the flower are most unusal and exotic. The leaves are arranged in oblong pairs of leaflets, and the flowers are greenish-yellow with an almost black keel.
Vicia melanops grows on roadsides, in the garrigue, in grassy locations, and also amongst bushes and shrubs which it uses as a support over which to scamble. It flowers from March until June.
How to get rid of:
Control common vetch with a post-emergent two-, three-, and four-way broadleaf herbicide. Herbicides containing triclopyr and clopyralid, as well as fluroxypyr products are efficient herbicide controls.
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