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Centrosema virginianum
Also called Butterfly Pea, Blue Bell, Lady’s Vulva, Virginia Centro
Spurred butterfly pea is a twining or trailing perennial vine in the pea family, grown for its showy blue-purple flowers, and it is native to sunny pine lands and coastal areas. It does best in full sun to part shade with well-drained soil and some moisture.
Centrosema virginianum is known by the common names of spurred butterfly pea, wild blue vine, blue bell, and wild pea. C. virginianum is a member of the family Fabaceae, it is identified by its trailing and twining vine and showy flowers. C. virginianum habitats are in sunny areas within pine lands, and coastal uplands.
Centrosema virginianum ranges more or less continuously from Uruguay and northern Argentina to the eastern United States and Bermuda in tropical and subtropical areas. It is widely distributed throughout the West Indies and has become naturalized in tropical West Africa.
Pineland butterfly pea · Centrosema brasilianum · Soft butterfly pea · Flor de conchitas · Butterfly pea
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Centrosema virginianum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
