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Gray's Bean

Phaseolus grayanus

Gray's bean is a wild climbing vine in the pea and bean family, native to dry areas of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. It is grown mainly as a drought-tolerant ornamental and is best kept on a sunny, well-drained site.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Climber
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply but infrequently, letting the soil dry out between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gritty soil; tolerates poor soil.
Temperature
18–35 °C; protect below 5 °C
How easy
Easy
Native range
Arizona to Texas and N. & W. Mexico
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Phaseolus grayanus is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It is a climbing vine native to Mexico and the southwestern United States.

Where it grows

It is native to northern and western Mexico, and to Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas in the southwestern United States.

Other Phaseolus plants

Tepary bean · Slimleaf bean · Scarlet runner · Year Bean · Slimjim bean · Phaseolus glabellus · Bean · Lima bean · Spotted bean · Few Flowered Bean · Thicket bean · Santa Rita Mountain bean

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Phaseolus grayanus 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.

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