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
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
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Clitoria mariana var. mariana FAMILY Fabaceae
Butterfly-pea
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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JK Marlow jkm0506m_19
June Union County SC
Sumter National Forest: Tyger Ranger District
Leaflets ovate or elliptic, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
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leaves that are trifoliolate and pinnately compound
JK Marlow jkm0506m_20
June Union County SC
Sumter National Forest: Tyger Ranger District
Large flowers on stalks from the leaf axils, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
JK Marlow jkm100702_142
July Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
The calyx has a long tube and shorter lobes (vs. the opposite in Centrosema), per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
JK Marlow s070830_i
August SC
Clemson Forest
Fruit a 1-2.5" legume, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
JK Marlow jkm061029_081
October Oconee County SC
Sumter National Forest: Andrew Pickens Ranger District
JK Marlow jkm061029_089
October Oconee County SC
Sumter National Forest: Andrew Pickens Ranger District
Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_clitoria_mariana_6
October
The standard up to 2" high, the wings & keel much smaller, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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Butterfly-pea species