Images of Common 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.
	Common vetch is often grown in combination with field pea and cereals, in orchard understories and in field and row crop farming operations. Photo by Bob Bugg.
	Common vetch stipular extrafloral nectary. Photo by Bob Bugg.
	Common vetch on left, woollypod vetch on right, in organic walnut orchard, Winters, Yolo Co., CA, photo by Bob Bugg.
	Common vetch appears better able to establish amid deep leaf litter than is 'Lana' woollypod vetch. Winters, Yolo Co., CA, photo by Bob Bugg.

	Common vetch, bell bean, and oat are often included in plow-down (green manure) cover crops.
	Common vetch (left) and woolypod vetch (right) are often grown in mixtures in walnut and almond orchards. Winters, Yolo Co., CA, photo by Bob Bugg.
	'Lana' woollypod vetch and common vetch are often sown together in orchards. Winters, Yolo Co., CA, photo by Bob Bugg.
	'Cahaba White' vetch is a hybrid with common vetch in its parentage. Sweet Home Ranch, Kingsburg. Photo by Bob Bugg.

	Vetches and other legumes develop root nodules within which are housed symbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacteria. Photo by Bob Bugg.
	Observations suggest that common vetch is among the most efficient winter-annual legumes at establishing in deep walnut leaf litter. Photo by Chuck Ingels.
	Common vetch flowers are visited by bumblebees but not by honeybees as are flowers of woollypod vetch or purple vetch. Photo by Chuck Ingels.

	Common vetch extrafloral (stipular) nectary.
	Common vetch is often infested by cowpea aphid (Aphis craccivora) which serves as prey for various beneficial insects, and exudes honeydew that is used by various ants. Tulare County, CA. Photo by Bob Bugg.
	Field pea, common vetch, and oat are often used in plow-down cover crop mixes. Photo by Chuck Ingels.
	Despite their different growth habits, bell bean and common vetch are closely related. West Sacramento, CA. Photo by Bob Bugg.

	Walnut orchards, with deep shade and late harvest, may require annual reseeding of cover crop. Winters, Yolo Co., CA, photo by Bob Bugg.
	Common vetch extrafloral nectary and blossom. Winters, CA. Photo by Jack Kelly Clark.
	Common vetch leaflets. Photo by Jack Kelly Clark.
	Common vetch tendrils embrace an oat stem. Photo by Jack Kelly Clark.
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