Your search found 13 image(s) of Butterfly-pea species.
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Climbing Butterfly-pea, Spurred Butterfly-pea
Centrosema virginianum
Look for it in dry woodlands & openings
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Leaflets mostly ovate or lance-shaped but sometimes linear, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
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Calyx tube broadly hemispheric; lobes linear-subulate, the lowermost longest, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Flowers egg-shaped to nearly round, usually a white spot in center, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
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Fruit a flattened 2-5" linear pod, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
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Legume flattened, 7-14cm, with an elongate, persistent, beak-like style, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
Butterfly-pea
Clitoria mariana var. mariana
Look for it in dry woodlands & openings, roadsides
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Leaflets ovate or elliptic, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
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Large flowers on stalks from the leaf axils, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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The calyx has a long tube and shorter lobes (vs. the opposite in Centrosema), per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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Fruit a 1-2.5" legume, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
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The standard up to 2" high, the wings & keel much smaller, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.