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Clitoria mariana
Also called Butterfly Pea, Pigeonwings
Atlantic pigeonwings is a native North American climbing or sprawling perennial in the pea family, grown for its purple summer flowers. It thrives in sunny, well-drained sites and tolerates partial shade and sandy soils.
Clitoria mariana, known by the common names butterfly pea and Atlantic pigeon wings, is a perennial herbaceous plant in the pea family, Fabaceae. The plant is native to the United States.
The plant is native to the eastern, southern, and central United States west to New Mexico and Arizona. It is also found in Asia, in: Bhutan, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, and southern China (Guangxi, Yunnan).
Clitoria andrei · Clitoria brachystegia · Philippine pigeonwings · Sickle pigeonwings · Sweetscented pigeonwings · Clitoria guianensis · Clitoria moyobambensis · Asian pigeonwings · Clitoria woytkowskii · Pigeonwings
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Clitoria mariana 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.
