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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Legumes, Milkworts, and Allies
  6. Legumes
  7. Phaseolinae
  8. Cowpea

genus

Cowpea

Vigna

Traits
Includes
2 native 3 introduced 2 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Wild Cowpea native
  • Wild Cow Pea present
  • Beach Pea native
  • Cowpea introduced
  • Mung Bean present
  • Creole-bean present
  • Smallest Bean
  • Adzuki Bean
  • Sarawak-bean present
  • Rice Bean
  • Long-leaved Bean
  • Moth Bean
  • Urad Dal
  • Vigna oblongifolia
  • Vigna lasiocarpa
  • Bambara Groundnut
  • Vigna juruana
  • Vigna antillana
  • Hawaii Wild Bean native
  • Vigna heterophylla

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Key traits

Layer
Vines
Plant type
Annual Perennial Vine Wildflower

From USDA PLANTS.

Top native cowpea All

Native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

  • Wild Cowpea Vigna luteola caterpillars 7 food 2 flowers 23
  • Beach Pea Vigna marina
  • Hawaii Wild Bean Vigna owahuensis

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