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§1 Plant

Vigna luteola (Jacq.) Benth.

vernacular hairypod cowpea — species · Fabaceae


USDA
VILU3
GBIF
2982573
Rank
species
hairypod cowpea (Vigna luteola)
Platephotograph · James (Jim) DugganCC BY-SA source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

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

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
  • PR Puerto Rico Native
  • VI U.S. Virgin Islands Native
§2b

County-level range

· 88 counties across 9 states/territories
Legend Native · 88 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 88 counties across 9 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 3 N
Florida view state ↗ 37 N
Georgia view state ↗ 3 N
Louisiana view state ↗ 19 N
Mississippi view state ↗ 6 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 2 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 2 N
South Carolina view state ↗ 2 N
Texas view state ↗ 14 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/VILU3 ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/2982573 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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