Index / Search / Phaseolus polystachios var. sinuatus

§1 Plant

Phaseolus polystachios (L.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb. var. sinuatus (Nutt. ex Torr. & A. Gray) R. Marechal, J.M. Mascherpa & F. Stainier

vernacular thicket bean — variety · Fabaceae


USDA
PHPOS
GBIF
10817627 syn.
Rank
variety
thicket bean (Phaseolus polystachios var. sinuatus)
Platephotograph · Paulette Haywood Ogard source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb, Vine
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Fabaceae Lindl.
Genus
Phaseolus
§2a

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 33 counties across 6 states/territories
Legend Native · 33 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 33 counties across 6 states/territories.


§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/PHPOS ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/10817627 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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