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  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Legumes, Milkworts, and Allies
  6. Legumes
  7. Phaseoleae
  8. Mucunas

genus

Mucunas

Mucuna

Traits
Includes
2 native 1 introduced 4 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Long-fruited Mucuna present
  • Velvet Bean introduced
  • Ox-eye Bean present
  • Burny Bean native
  • Scarlet Jade Vine present
  • Horseeye Bean native
  • Mucuna
  • Mucuna elliptica
  • Flame of the Forest
  • Mucuna cyclocarpa
  • Mucuna persericea

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 mucunas All

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

  • Horseeye Bean Mucuna sloanei caterpillars 1
  • Burny Bean Mucuna gigantea

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