Vicia americana

Common names: American vetch, vetch

Authority: Muhl

Taxonomy: Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Fabales > Fabaceae

Roles: host plant, study subject, vegetation component, food plant, understory species, managed species, habitat component

ITIS TSN: 26331

Synonyms: V. americana, Vicia americana, Viam, Vicia, Va, VICAME, vetch, Vicia spp.

External: RMBL Collections · iNaturalist · iDigBio · GenBank

Papers: 77 | Mentions: 92

Local Knowledge Graph (Top 77 entities)

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Publications (85)

student_paper

Foraging preferences of generalist Megachilidae

2025Role: text_match

article

Up high, hot and dry: Individual reproductive output in subalpine bees declines with increasing drought severity

2025Global Change BiologyRole: host plant

student_paper

Effect of Nitrogen on Linaria vulgaris and Native Species

2024Role: study subject

student_paper

How do Bombus appositus and Bombus bifarius worker tongue lengths vary within a season?

2024Role: food plant

student_paper

Effects of warming, dominant species removal, and accelerated snowmelt on aboveground plant traits in the Colorado Rocky Mountains

2023Role: study subject

student_paper

Effects of Floral Abundance, Pollinator Interactions, and Floral Morphology on Stigmatic Pollen Deposition

2022Role: study subject

article

Legume germination is delayed in dry soils and in sterile soils devoid of microbial mutualists: Species-specific implications for upward range expansions

2022Ecology and EvolutionRole: study subject

thesis

Tritrophic mutualisms in a changing climate

Documents (5)

Document

Moist Forests

environmental assessment

Vegetation Appendix Materials for Vegetation and Wildlife Studies for the Mount Emmons Project

environmental assessment

Vegetation and Wildlife Studies for the Mount Emmons Project

environmental assessment

Vegetation and Wildlife Studies for the Mount Emmons Project

environmental assessment

Wetlands of the Crested Butte Region

Co-occurring Species

2022Role: study subject

thesis

Tritrophic mutualisms in a changing climate

2022Role: text_match

article

From the ground up: Building predictions for how climate change will affect belowground mutualisms, floral traits, and bee behavior

2021Climate Change EcologyRole: host plant

student_paper

Impacts of brood parasites, floral abundance, and bee age on maternal investment in a solitary bee, Osmia iridis

2021Role: host plant

student_paper

Investigating the relationship between Bombus appositus abundance and its overlap with key floral resources

2021Role: host plant

article

Modeling geogenic and atmospheric nitrogen through the East River Watershed, Colorado Rocky Mountains

2021PloS oneRole: habitat component

article

Modeling geogenic and atmospheric nitrogen through the East River Watershed, Colorado Rocky Mountains

2021PloS oneRole: text_match

student_paper

Nectar Variation in Simple and Compound Flowers; and its Effects on Plant Pollinator Interactions

2021Role: study subject

article

Understanding pollen specialization in mason bees: a case study of six species

2021OecologiaRole: host plant

article

Birds Perceive More Intraspecific Color Variation in Bird-Pollinated Than Bee-Pollinated Flowers

2020Frontiers in Plant Science. doi 10.3389/fpls.2020.590347Role: study subject

student_paper

Quantifying Nectar Trait Responses to Natural Variation in Water Availability in Subalpine Plant Communities

2020Role: study subject

article

Comparing predictive measures and model functions for estimating plant biomass: lessons from a sagebrush–rabbitbrush community

2019Plant EcologyRole: text_match

student_paper

Effects of weather and floral density on foraging activity of cavity nesting bees ( Osmia spp.)

2019Role: host plant

student_paper

Global Climate Change-Induced Mutualism Breakdown Among Legumes and their Soil Synbionts

2019Role: study subject

thesis

How vulnerable are pollen-specialist solitary bees to temperature-mediated shifts in the timing of food availability?

2019Role: floral host-plant

thesis

How vulnerable are pollen-specialist solitary bees to temperature-mediated shifts in the timing of food availability?

2019Role: text_match

student_paper

Intraspecific flower color variation along elevation gradients

2019Role: study subject

student_paper

Niche breadth changes in response to environmental perturbation: the impact of early snowmelt on subalpine plant-pollinator specialization

2019Role: text_match

student_paper

Quantifying Nectar Resources in Bumble Bee Visited Plants

2019Role: study subject

article

Two-year bee or not two-year bee? How voltinism is affected by temperature and season length in a high-elevation solitary bee

2019American NaturalistRole: text_match

student_paper

Characterizing nectar content in wet and dry subalpine meadows during an extreme summer drought

2018Role: study subject

thesis

Examining the impact of pollen diet composition on bee development and lifespan

2018Role: text_match

student_paper

First-order controls of soil and leaf moisture

2018Role: vegetation component

article

Direct benefits and indirect costs of warm temperatures for high-elevation populations of a solitary bee

2017EcologyRole: host plant

article

Phenological responses to multiple environmental drivers under climate change: insights from a long-term observational study and a manipulative field experiment

2017Role: study subject

student_paper

Selection for early reproduction in the solitary bee Hoplitis fulgida

2017Role: host plant

thesis

Temporal ecology of a subalpine ecosystem: Plant communities, plant-pollinator interactions, & climate change.

2016Role: text_match

student_paper

The Changing Floral Color Landscape Across an Alpine Elevation Gradient

2016Role: text_match

thesis

Adaptation to climate and climate change in Rocky Mountain butterflies: Morphology, physiology, and behavior

2015Role: habitat component

thesis

Adaptation to climate and climate change in Rocky Mountain butterflies: Morphology, physiology, and behavior

2015Role: text_match

student_paper

Does Bumble Bee Diet Breadth vary with the Floral Abundance in a Meadow?

2015Role: host plant

article

Aspen (Populus tremuloides) stand dynamics and understory plant community changes over 46 years near Crested Butte, Colorado, USA

2014Forest Ecology and ManagementRole: text_match

article

Empirical tests of withinâ€and acrossâ€species energetics in a diverse plant community

2014EcologyRole: study subject

student_paper

Plant Successional Changes Over 67 Years on the Gothic Earthflow.

2014Role: study subject

thesis

Rapid evolution and population divergence in response to environmental change in Colias butterlies

2014Role: host plant

article

Revisiting Darwin's hypothesis: Does greater intraspecific variability increase species' ecological breadth?

2014American Journal of BotanyRole: study subject

student_paper

Effect of location on plant species richness and diversity in Aspen (Populus tremuloides) understory: edge vs. inner forest habitat

2013Role: understory species

article

Local geographic distributions of bumble bees near Crested Butte, Colorado: Competition and community structure revisited

2012Environmental EntomologyRole: host/food plant

student_paper

Intraspecific variation of specific leaf area along an elevational gradient

2011Role: study subject

student_paper

Spatial distribution of mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus): Effects of plant palatability and habitat structure

2011Role: text_match

article

Beyond biomass: measuring the effects of community-level nitrogen enrichment on floral traits, pollinator visitation and plant reproduction

2010J of EcologyRole: study subject

article

Flowering phenology in subalpine meadows: does climate variation influence community co-flowering patterns?

2010EcologyRole: study subject

thesis

Plant–Pollinator interactions in a changing climate

2010Role: text_match

student_paper

Testing the predictions of the Maximum Information Entropy Theory for abundance and energy distributions on the Gothic earthflow

2010Role: study subject

student_paper

Plant community composition with respect to species richness along an altitudinal gradient in gunnison county, co

2009Role: text_match

student_paper

Species richness along an elevational gradient

2009Role: text_match

thesis

The effects of mine disturbance and contamination on pollination of subalpine wildflowers

2009Role: habitat component

thesis

The effects of mine disturbance and contamination on pollination of subalpine wildflowers

2009Role: text_match

article

The importance of interannual variation and bottom-up nitrogen enrichment for plant-pollinator networks

2009OikosRole: text_match

thesis

Bottom-up effects of nutrient enrichment on plants, pollinators, and their interactions

2008Role: text_match

student_paper

Effect of Soil Metals on Pollination of Subalpine Wildflowers

2008Role: text_match

thesis

Reciprocal benefits in a plant-pollinator mutualism

2008Role: text_match

student_paper

Pollination subsidies between wetland and dry meadow habitats

2007Role: study subject

student_paper

Pollination subsidies between wetland and dry meadow habitats

2007Role: text_match

thesis

Ecosystem responses to warming-induced plant species loss and increased nitrogen availability in a Rocky Mountain subalpine meadow

2006Role: study subject

student_paper

The Effects of Soil Nitrogen Availability on Plant Reproduction and Solitary Bee Behavior

2006Role: study subject

student_paper

Impacts of Mule Deer Herbivory on Herbaceous Vegetation in the Gothic Area, with Focus on Aquilegia coerulea

2005Role: study subject

article

Observations on plant choice by foraging yellow-bellied marmots

2003Oecologia MontanaRole: text_match

article

The evolution of wing color in Colias butterflies: heritability, sex linkage, and population divergence

2002EvolutionRole: host plant

article

Experimental manipulation of plant density and its effect on pollination and reproduction of two confamilial montane herbs

2001OecologiaRole: heterospecific pollen source

article

Global warming and soil microclimate: results from a meadow-warming experiment

1995Ecological ApplicationsRole: study subject

article

Shifting dominance within a montane vegetation community: results from a climate-warming experiment

1995ScienceRole: text_match

article

Shifting dominance within a montane vegetation community: results from a climate-warming experiment

1995ScienceRole: component of dry-zone forb com

student_paper

Festuca thurberi and Vicia americana - a mutualism?

1994Role: text_match

article

Plasma and white adipose tissue lipid composition in marmots

1990American Journal of PhysiologyRole: food plant (wild marmot diet s

article

Short-term learning and the searching accuracy of egg-laying butterflies

1984Animal BehaviourRole: host plant

article

Effects of ant mounds on soil chemistry and vegetation patterns in a montane Colorado meadow

1983EcologyRole: text_match

article

Thermoregulatory strategies in Colias butterflies: thermal stress and the limits to adaptation in temporally varying environments

1983American NaturalistRole: larval/adult host plant used f

article

Local geographic distributions of bumblebees near Crested Butte, Colorado: competition and community structure

1982EcologyRole: habitat component

article

Bumblebee response to variation in nectar availability

1981EcologyRole: host plant / nectar source

article

Competition for bumblebee pollinators in Rocky Mountain plant communities

1980EcologyRole: study subject

article

Skewed flowering distributions and pollinator attraction

1980EcologyRole: study subject

article

The effect of proboscis and corolla tube lengths on patterns and rates of flower visitation by bumblebees

1980OecologiaRole: food plant / flower species st

article

Behavioral and environmental factors in the spatial distribution and population dynamics of a yellow-bellied marmot population

1974EcologyRole: vegetation

student_paper

Larval food plants for Colias alexandria: a survey of the distributions of Lathyrus leucanthus and Vicia americana near Gothic, Colorado

1970Role: text_match

student_paper

A study of plant succession on the Gothic earthflow

1969Role: study subject (vicinity)

student_paper

A study of plant succession on the Gothic earthflow

1969Role: text_match

article

Vegetation and environmental patterns in the Crested Butte area, Gunnison County, Colorado

1962Ecological MonographsRole: habitat component

Vicia americana

Local Knowledge Graph (Top 77 entities)

Publications (85)

Foraging preferences of generalist Megachilidae

Up high, hot and dry: Individual reproductive output in subalpine bees declines with increasing drought severity

Effect of Nitrogen on Linaria vulgaris and Native Species

How do Bombus appositus and Bombus bifarius worker tongue lengths vary within a season?

Effects of warming, dominant species removal, and accelerated snowmelt on aboveground plant traits in the Colorado Rocky Mountains

Effects of Floral Abundance, Pollinator Interactions, and Floral Morphology on Stigmatic Pollen Deposition

Legume germination is delayed in dry soils and in sterile soils devoid of microbial mutualists: Species-specific implications for upward range expansions

Tritrophic mutualisms in a changing climate

Documents (5)

Moist Forests

Vegetation Appendix Materials for Vegetation and Wildlife Studies for the Mount Emmons Project

Vegetation and Wildlife Studies for the Mount Emmons Project

Vegetation and Wildlife Studies for the Mount Emmons Project

Wetlands of the Crested Butte Region

Co-occurring Species

Delphinium

Ipomopsis aggregata

Lathyrus lanszwertii var. leucanthus

Erigeron

Potentilla

Delphinium barbeyi

Erigeron speciosus

Lupinus

Mertensia

Taraxacum officinale

Tritrophic mutualisms in a changing climate

From the ground up: Building predictions for how climate change will affect belowground mutualisms, floral traits, and bee behavior

Impacts of brood parasites, floral abundance, and bee age on maternal investment in a solitary bee, <i> Osmia iridis </i>

Investigating the relationship between <i> Bombus appositus </i> abundance and its overlap with key floral resources

Modeling geogenic and atmospheric nitrogen through the East River Watershed, Colorado Rocky Mountains

Modeling geogenic and atmospheric nitrogen through the East River Watershed, Colorado Rocky Mountains

Nectar Variation in Simple and Compound Flowers; and its Effects on Plant Pollinator Interactions

Understanding pollen specialization in mason bees: a case study of six species

Birds Perceive More Intraspecific Color Variation in Bird-Pollinated Than Bee-Pollinated Flowers

Quantifying Nectar Trait Responses to Natural Variation in Water Availability in Subalpine Plant Communities

Comparing predictive measures and model functions for estimating plant biomass: lessons from a sagebrush–rabbitbrush community

Effects of weather and floral density on foraging activity of cavity nesting bees (<i> Osmia </i>spp.)

Global Climate Change-Induced Mutualism Breakdown Among Legumes and their Soil Synbionts

How vulnerable are pollen-specialist solitary bees to temperature-mediated shifts in the timing of food availability?

How vulnerable are pollen-specialist solitary bees to temperature-mediated shifts in the timing of food availability?

Intraspecific flower color variation along elevation gradients

Niche breadth changes in response to environmental perturbation: the impact of early snowmelt on subalpine plant-pollinator specialization

Quantifying Nectar Resources in Bumble Bee Visited Plants

Two-year bee or not two-year bee? How voltinism is affected by temperature and season length in a high-elevation solitary bee

Characterizing nectar content in wet and dry subalpine meadows during an extreme summer drought

Examining the impact of pollen diet composition on bee development and lifespan

First-order controls of soil and leaf moisture

Direct benefits and indirect costs of warm temperatures for high-elevation populations of a solitary bee

Phenological responses to multiple environmental drivers under climate change: insights from a long-term observational study and a manipulative field experiment

Selection for early reproduction in the solitary bee <i>Hoplitis fulgida</i>

Temporal ecology of a subalpine ecosystem: Plant communities, plant-pollinator interactions, & climate change.

The Changing Floral Color Landscape Across an Alpine Elevation Gradient

Adaptation to climate and climate change in Rocky Mountain butterflies: Morphology, physiology, and behavior

Adaptation to climate and climate change in Rocky Mountain butterflies: Morphology, physiology, and behavior

Does Bumble Bee Diet Breadth vary with the Floral Abundance in a Meadow?

Aspen (<i>Populus tremuloides</i>) stand dynamics and understory plant community changes over 46 years near Crested Butte, Colorado, USA

Empirical tests of withinâ€and acrossâ€species energetics in a diverse plant community

Plant Successional Changes Over 67 Years on the Gothic Earthflow.

Rapid evolution and population divergence in response to environmental change in <i>Colias</i> butterlies

Revisiting Darwin's hypothesis: Does greater intraspecific variability increase species' ecological breadth?

Effect of location on plant species richness and diversity in Aspen (<i>Populus tremuloides</i>) understory: edge vs. inner forest habitat

Local geographic distributions of bumble bees near Crested Butte, Colorado: Competition and community structure revisited

Intraspecific variation of specific leaf area along an elevational gradient

Spatial distribution of mule deer (<i>Odocoileus hemionus</i>): Effects of plant palatability and habitat structure

Beyond biomass: measuring the effects of community-level nitrogen enrichment on floral traits, pollinator visitation and plant reproduction

Flowering phenology in subalpine meadows: does climate variation influence community co-flowering patterns?

Plant–Pollinator interactions in a changing climate

Testing the predictions of the Maximum Information Entropy Theory for abundance and energy distributions on the Gothic earthflow

Plant community composition with respect to species richness along an altitudinal gradient in gunnison county, co

Species richness along an elevational gradient

The effects of mine disturbance and contamination on pollination of subalpine wildflowers

The effects of mine disturbance and contamination on pollination of subalpine wildflowers

The importance of interannual variation and bottom-up nitrogen enrichment for plant-pollinator networks

Bottom-up effects of nutrient enrichment on plants, pollinators, and their interactions

Effect of Soil Metals on Pollination of Subalpine Wildflowers

Reciprocal benefits in a plant-pollinator mutualism

Pollination subsidies between wetland and dry meadow habitats

Empirical tests of withinâ€and acrossâ€species energetics in a diverse plant community