Black-eye Pea (Vigna unguiculata)

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Cowpea - Wikipedia
Vigna unguiculata - USDA PLANTS Database
All About Growing Dry Beans and Peas - Mother Earth News

Duration: Annual

Native to: First domesticated in Africa

Edibility: Beans, leaves, and pods

Status in Yard: Garden, some has escaped to surrounding ground

Black-eye peas, otherwise known as cowpeas, etc., grow very well in my garden.  On June 29, 2016, the black eye pea plants had pods ready to pick, but they still had some growing to do. I didn't think to eat the pods themselves at the time.

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A black-eye pea flower, seen from above, on July 23, 2016

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Cow peas are susceptible to cowpea aphids, which covered some of the flower areas of the first cow peas I grew in May 2014.