Vicia cassubica, called Kashubian vetch and Danzig vetch, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Vicia. Found in thermophilous oak forests, it also does well in old fields that are in later stages of succession.
Despite its binomial and common name suggesting a connection to the Kashubian region of Poland, the plant species is also native to most of Europe, Turkey, North, Northwest and South European Russia, the Levant, the Caucasus and Iran.
Naked or short-haired, erect or climbing, about long.
Evenly-spaced, composed of 8âÂÂ12 pairs of elliptic leaflets. Their short and numerous lateral nerves growing at a 45ð angle to the main nerve are reticulate. The bracts are entire-edged.
Blooms from June to July. Collected in clusters of 5âÂÂ14 purple-violet butterfly flowers, whose corolla is long. Their filament is at least as long as a petal. The clusters are shorter than the leaves that grow at an angle.
Egg-like pods about long containing usually 1âÂÂ2 seeds.