Butterfly Pea
(Clitoria ternatea)

Description:
Butterfly Pea is an perennial or annual vine. Once established, butterfly pea easy to grow and requires little attention, just a helping a little to train it up a trellis.  The blue flowers are used to primarily to make tea or as a natural dye for food.
Since butterfly pea is a legume, its roots form a symbiotic relationship with soil bacteria. Meaning these plants gather their own nitrogen from the air and store it in nodules in their roots which benefits the soil

Growing:
  • ​tender perennial (protect from frost)​
  • full sun
  • ​well draining soil
  • average water
  • harvest: flowers

How to use?
  • herbal tea
  • help build soil by adding nitrogen into the soil via roots
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