Cowpea
Vigna unguiculata
About
The cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) is an annual herbaceous legume from the genus Vigna. Due to its tolerance for sandy soil and low rainfall it is an important crop in the semi-arid regions across Africa and other countries. It requires very few inputs, as the plants root nodules are able to fix atmospheric nitrogen, making it a valuable crop for resource poor farmers and well-suited to intercropping with other crops. The whole plant is used as forage...
- Family
- Fabaceae
How to use it
Cowpeas are valuable for their ability to fix atmospheric nitrogen, which enriches the soil and benefits other crops when intercropped. They are also used as forage for livestock, providing nutritious feed.
Sources: en.wikipedia.org
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Cowpea
- Slug
- cowpea
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Vigna
- Species
- unguiculata
- Category
- Bean
- Wikidata QID
- Q498940
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 48
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- inaturalist (description.summary) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigna unguiculata