Cowpea
लोबियाகாராமணிఅలసంద
Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 2.3 m
- wide
- 61 cm
Fabaceae
Also called Southern Pea, Black-eyed Pea, Twin Flower, Cuckold's-Increase, Blackeyed pea
Formerly Dolichos unguiculatus
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Scrambling annualKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Cape Verde, Trop. & S. AfricaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 1.5 m to 3.0 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 30 cm to 91 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- Purple, violetRead from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- root
- ishpaluhua-saca, bainulaitaz, blackeyed pea
- Spanish
- Limoncillo
- Finnish
- lehmänpapu
- Czech
- vigna čínská
- Portuguese
- Feijão-frade, Feijão-frade, feijão-mongolão, feijão-Macáçar, feijão-macundi e afins, Mulato-gelato
- Japanese
- ササゲ, 大角豆
- Chinese
- 豇豆, 短豇豆, 赤小豆叶
- Chinese (China)
- 豇豆
- Arabic
- لوبياء ظفرية, لوبياء, دجر
- Sinhala
- කව්පි
- Italian
- Fagiolo dall'occhio, Fagiolo con l'occhio, Dolico dall'occhio nero
- Korean
- 동부
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Vigna unguiculata (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.