Taxon: Clitoria fragrans Small

• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

Species on the following lists:

• U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service - Threatened
  
• Check conservation status and distribution in NatureServe Explorer database

Common names:

• pigeon-wings   (Source: End Sp TBull 18-2:13) – English
  

Economic importance:

• View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Florida [De Sota, Highlands, Lake, Orange, Osceola, & Polk Cos.]

References:

• Endang. Spec. Techn. Bull. 18(2):13.
• Fantz, P. R. 1993. Revising the classification of cultivated Centrosema and Clitoria in the United States. HortScience 28:675.
• Fantz, P. R. 2002. Distribution of Clitoria (Leguminosae: Phaseoleae: Clitoriinae) for the Flora of North America project. Vulpia 1:84–85.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Kral, R. 1983. A report on some rare, threatened, or endangered forest-related vascular plants of the South. Techn. Publ. U.S. Forest Serv. R8 TP2, 1:646.
• Radford, A. E. et al., eds. 1980–. Vascular flora of the southeastern United States.
• United States Fish and Wildlife Service. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. Species Information: threatened and endangered animals and plants (on-line resource).
• Wunderlin, R. P. 1982. Guide to the vascular plants of central Florida.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Clitoria fragrans.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Clitoria fragrans.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Clitoria fragrans.

Check other web resources for Clitoria fragrans Small:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ILDIS: World Database of Legumes
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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