The open plant encyclopedia
Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.
The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.
Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.
Clitoria ternatea
Also called Butterfly pea, Blue pea, Bluebellvine, Darwin pea, Cordofan pea
A climbing or trailing perennial vine in the pea family, grown for its vivid blue flowers and used as an ornamental and a soil-improving legume. It is easy to grow in warm, frost-free conditions with full sun and moderate moisture.
Clitoria ternatea, commonly known as Shankhupushpam (conch-shaped flower), Asian pigeonwings, bluebellvine, blue pea, butterfly pea, cordofan pea, or Darwin pea, is a plant in the family Fabaceae. It is named after the Indonesian island of Ternate. In Indian Ayurveda it is commonly known by the name aparajita.
C. ternatea does not suffer from any severe pest or disease problems.
This plant is native to equatorial Asia, including locations in South Asia and Southeast Asia but has also been introduced to Africa, Australia and the Americas.
The flower can be used to dye natural fibers and is used by traditional societies in Asia to do so.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Clitoria ternatea 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.
