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Phaseolus filiformis
Also called Slender Stem Bean
Phaseolus filiformis is a small wild bean, an annual of dry desert and shrubland in the southwestern US and northern Mexico, with pink pea-like flowers and small pods. It is a wild species rarely grown in gardens, so it needs warm, dry, sunny conditions and minimal watering.
Phaseolus filiformis is a species of wild bean native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. Its common names include slimjim bean, slender-stem bean, Wright's Limabean and Wright's phaseolus. This plant resembles other beans in appearance, with leaves composed of lobed triangular leaflets and pink pea-like flowers. The small bean pods are 2.5 to 3.5 cm long and less than 1 cm wide.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Phaseolus filiformis 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.
