Also called common vetch, garden vetch, or tare, it is a broad perennial herb with hollow, four-sided, sparse or hairy stems that can reach 2 meters in length.
This plant usually has weak stems lying on the ground, but may grow upright when planted with wheat or other grasses.
Vetch have long been part of the human diet, as evidenced by charred remains found at early Neolithic sites in Syria, Turkey, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Slovakia.
Furthermore, horses breed better on vetch than on clover or rye. Likewise, the same is true for fattening cattle.
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