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Few Flowered Bean

Phaseolus pauciflorus

Few Flowered Bean
Photo: Bentham-Moxon Trust.; Curtis, William; Curtis's botanical magazine dedications, 1827-1927 : portraits and biographical n, Public domain

Phaseolus pauciflorus is a wild bean from seasonally dry tropical areas of Mexico and Guatemala, grown mainly as a curiosity or for breeding interest rather than as a food crop. Give it full sun and well-drained soil, and let it dry out between waterings.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly during the growing season and allow the soil to dry out between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or loamy soil.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Mexico to Guatemala
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Phaseolus pauciflorus is a species of wild bean native to Mexico and Guatemala.

Other Phaseolus plants

Tepary bean · Slimleaf bean · Scarlet runner · Year Bean · Slimjim bean · Phaseolus glabellus · Gray's Bean · Bean · Lima bean · Spotted bean · Thicket bean · Santa Rita Mountain bean

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Phaseolus pauciflorus 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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