| Images of Purple Vetch
| | Note: The following cover crop images are part of an extensive collection of cover crop photographs maintained the UC SAREP staff. The images have not been completely categorized and labeled. Some will be included in a book on cover crops due out in 1997, but all images have been made available online because of the overwhelming number of requests we have had for them. |
| Purple vetch is often used in rotation with rice. Butte County, CA., photo by Bob Bugg.
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| Purple vetch is useful on heavy, poorly drained soils, and is often used in rotation with rice. Butte Co., CA, photo by Bob Bugg.
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| Purple vetch is often included in winter-annual plow-down cover crop mixes. Watsonville, Santa Cruz Co., CA., photo by Bob Bugg.
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| Organic rice rotations typically include purple vetch. Butte Co., CA, photo by Bob Bugg.
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| Purple vetch is usually included in organic rice rotations. Butte Co., CA, photo by Bob Bugg.
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| Because its seed mature relatively late, purple vetch is little threat to become a weed in organic rotations. Guinda, Yolo Co., CA, photo by Bob Bugg.
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| Purple vetch is often used in organic rice rotations. Butte County, CA, photo by Bob Bugg.
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| Purple vetch is tolerant of heavy soils, and matures later than 'Lana' woolypod vetch. Marysville, CA. Photo by Bob Bugg.
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| Soil fertility enhancement is a major motive for cover cropping. Butte County, CA. Photo by Bob Bugg.
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| Purple vetch flowers have more red than does 'Lana' woollypod vetch. Winters, Yolo Co., CA, photo by Jack Kelly Clark.
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| Purple vetch, woollypod vetch, and common vetch (clockwise from left)are the main vetches grown in California. Winters, Yolo Co., CA, photo by Jack Kelly Clark.
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