Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Butterfly-pea from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fabales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Clitoria mariana var. mariana
FAMILY
Fabaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Clitoria mariana
FAMILY
Fabaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-42-001:
Clitoria mariana
FAMILY
Fabaceae
COMMON NAME:
Butterfly-pea
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Look for it in dry woodlands & openings, roadsides, per Weakley's Flora
Herbaceous vine
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in
GA
NC
SC
Common
...Dry
LEAVES:
Odd-pinnately compound: 3 leaflets
Mostly alternate
FLOWER:
Summer
Blue/Lavender
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-parted papilionaceous corolla
10 stamens, monadelphous
Superior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Legume
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers p053
- Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses p034
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p110
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry p150
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p038
- Wild Flowers of NC, 1st edition p102
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p132
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p129
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p167
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p077
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p086
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