Plate 1 figs. a–h · 4 observations
This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.
Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.
Native range 98 botanical countries
Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.
Flowering 123 in flower of 125 examined
Peak flowering in Feb. Each bar is the share of Vigna vexillata observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 123 of 125 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 2 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.
Also published as 61 synonyms
A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.
- Dolichos angustifolius (Schumach. & Thonn.) Vahl ex Guill. & Perr.
- Dolichos capensis L.
- Dolichos cylindricus Desv.
- Dolichos plectrotropis Steud.
- Dolichos stenophyllus Gagnep.
- Dolichos striatus Steud.
- Dolichos vexillatus (L.) Kunth
- Phaseolus afer Haberle ex Steud.
- Phaseolus alatus L.
- Phaseolus angustifolius (Schumach. & Thonn.) Graham
- Phaseolus asperrimus Schrank
- Phaseolus capensis Thunb.
- Phaseolus capensis sensu Thunb.
- Phaseolus fusiformis Graham
- Phaseolus glycinaeformis Weinm.
- Phaseolus glyciniformis Weinm.
- Phaseolus humifusus Savi
- Phaseolus novo-guineensis Warb.
- Phaseolus novoguineensis Warb.
- Phaseolus pulniensis Wight
- Phaseolus quadrifarius Baker
- Phaseolus quadriflorus Hochst. ex A.Rich.
- Phaseolus sepiarius Dalzell
- Phaseolus vexillatus L.
and 37 more.
Sourcesevery claim on this page
- World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
- iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
- Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
- Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.
We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.