BUTTERFLY PEA
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Clitoria mariana L.
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| Wildcat Glades, Newton County, Missouri |
| Perennial |
| Height: To 16 inches |
| Family: Fabaceae - Bean Family |
| Flowering Period: May, June, July, August, September |
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| Also Called: | | Pigeon wings. | | Stems: | | Vine, slender, nearly erect to trailing or twining, 8-16(-36) inches, glabrous to sparsely pubescent. | | Leaves: | | Alternate, pinnately trifoliate, 2 to 4 inches; stipules subulate, .7 to .4 inch; petioles 1 to 2.8 inches; leaflets entire, ovate to lanceolate, .4 to 2.8 inches long, broadest at base, glabrous or sparsely pubescent below, apex tapering to point. | | Inflorescences: | | 1-3 flowers in axils of leaves; peduncles .1 to 1.6 inches long. | | Flowers: | | Pedicels .08 to .3 inch; calyx tube cylindric, flaring, .4 to .6 inch long, usually glabrous, teeth 5; corolla papilionaceous, pale blue or lavender with purplish veins; banner 1.6 to 2.4 inches long, 1.2 to 1.6 inches wide, much exceeding keel and wing petals; keel strongly incurved, shorter than wings and coherent with them to middle; stamens 10, diadelphous (9 together and 1 free). | | Fruits: | | Pods, oblong-linear, 1.2 to 2.4 inches long, flattened; seeds brown, ca. .16 inch, sticky, smooth, shiny. | | Habitat: | | Lowland or upland rocky open woods and thickets, stream banks, wooded hillsides, ravines; prefers dry acidic soils. | | Distribution: | | Cherokee County, Kansas | | Origin: | | Native | | Uses: | | The Cherokee held an infusion in the mouth to treat thrush. | | Comments: | | Late season flowers are often cleistogamous. |
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| Butterfly pea leaf |  | | 62 KB | | Wildcat Glades, Newton County, Missouri |
| | Butterfly pea habit |  | | 73 KB | | Wildcat Glades, Newton County, Missouri |
| | Butterfly pea |  | | 62 KB | | Wildcat Glades, Newton County, Missouri |
| | Butterfly pea flower |  | | 56 KB | |
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