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| Life form: |
| Perennial climbing vine |
| Stems: |
| Limp, climbing, branched, bristly, glabrous–short-haired |
| Leaves: |
| 5 to 12 pairs of opposite leaflets with an apical tendril. Apex of each leaflet pointed |
| Flowers: |
| Purple, violet flowers in long racemes |
| Flowering Period: |
| June, July, August |
| Fruits: |
| 10–25 mm long, flattish, glabrous, brown, 1-parted, 4–8-seeded legume |
| Habitat: |
| Forests, thickets, coast, pastureland, meadows, farmland, settlements |
Derivation of the botanical name:
Vicia the classical Latin name for vetch.
cracca Latin name applied by Rivinius to this plant, the Italian name Cracca and French name Vesce craque.
- The standard author abbreviation L. is used to indicate Carl Linnaeus (1707 – 1778), a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, the father of modern taxonomy.
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