Spurred Butterfly Pea

Butterfly garden, natural landscape, habitat restoration

Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.



Some tolerance to salty wind but not direct salt spray.

Pinelands and open coastal uplands

• Showy flowers
• Larval host plant for long-tailed skipper (Urbanus proteus) and northern cloudywing (Thorybes pylades) butterflies.
• Pollinated by bees.
• Primarily dispersed by ants.