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Ervil
Vicia ervilia
Vicia ervilia, known as ervil or bitter vetch, is an ancient grain legume crop of the Mediterranean region. Besides the English names, other common names include: gavdaneh (Persian), kersannah (Arabic), yero (Spanish), rovi (Greek), and burçak (Turkish). The nutritional value of the grain for ruminant cattle has guaranteed the continued cultivation of V. ervilia in Morocco, Spain and Turkey. The crop is easy to cultivate and harvest and can be grown on very shallow, alkaline soils.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Corpus of Latin Medical Writers (Corpus Medicorum Latinorum), Vol. IV
Various · 1927 · p.223
Introductio Generalis in Rem Herbariam
Augustus Quirinus Rivinus · 1690 · p.451
On the Virtues of Herbs
Macer Floridus (Odo of Meung) · 1090 · p.59
On the Virtues of Herbs
Macer Floridus · 1150 · p.138
Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.104
Book of Herbs
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1546 · p.389
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1549 · p.557
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1549 · p.248
On the Names of Plants
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1552 · p.543
Six Groups of the History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.709
Carl Linnaeus — Hortus Cliffortianus (1737)
Carl Linnaeus · 1737 · p.125
The Great Herbary with all the figures of the herbs
1532 · p.92
In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 514774.