Blue Pea Vine, Blue Clitoria Vine, Butterfly Pea Vine, Blue Peavine, Peavine

Description

2022 Missouri Botanic Garden Plants of Merit selection! One of the most amazingly blue colored flowers in the plant world! This small growing but vigorous annual or tender perennial vine produces loads of brilliant deep blue flowers with recurving and overlapping petals with a white to creamy yellow throat. It can be successfully overwintered but it's easier just to save a few seeds to plant in spring. The young tender fruit are edible but are considered unpalatable by some. Caterpillar host: Longtail Skipper

Provide with midday and or afternoon shade for the best foliage color, but keep in mind that too much shade may reduce flowering. The Blue Pea Vine or Clitoria prefers a rich moist soil.

Blue dye can be extracted from the blossoms!!