Scientific Name: Vigna luteola Benth.
Caption: Cow-pea (Vigna luteola)
Photographer: Bob Peterson
Locality: Juno Beach, Florida, United States (26.883646, -80.065129)
Notes: A cow-pea blossom (not cow-pee...that's something else) at Juno Dunes Natural Area with the ever-present ant friends who protect it. This member of the Fabaceae is in the same genus as the black eyed pea and mung bean. It is the larval host plant for cassius blue and several other butterflies and is sometimes used as cattle forage as it is quite ta
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