Pueraria montana(Lour.) Merr.

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WFO wfo-0000185101 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Pueraria montana, photographed by Brandon McCracken
fig. a Brandon McCracken, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-02-21 / obs. 180223110
Pueraria montana, photographed by 葉子
fig. b 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 184804073
Pueraria montana, photographed by 葉子
fig. c 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 179912555
Pueraria montana, photographed by 葉子
fig. d 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 179911976
Pueraria montana, photographed by Mingye Wang
fig. e Mingye Wang, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190268762
Pueraria montana, photographed by Emily Summerbell
fig. f Emily Summerbell, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 168421883
Pueraria montana, photographed by Adrienne van den Beemt
fig. g Adrienne van den Beemt, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 167724923
Pueraria montana, photographed by mefisher
fig. h mefisher, CC0 1.0 / obs. 164968875

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 940 observations

Peak flowering in Sep, from 940 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 52 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Bujacia anonychia E.Mey.
  • Dioclea odorata Montrouz.
  • Dolichos grandiflorus Wall.
  • Dolichos grandifolius Graham
  • Dolichos hirsutus Thunb.
  • Dolichos japonicus hort.
  • Dolichos lobatus Willd.
  • Dolichos montana Lour.
  • Dolichos montanus Lour.
  • Dolichos trilobus Houtt.
  • Glycine javanica L.
  • Glycine moniliforme Hochst. ex A.Rich.
  • Neustanthus chinensis Benth.
  • Pachyrhizus thunbergianus Siebold & Zucc.
  • Phaseolus aconitifolius Roxb.
  • Phaseolus cornutus Blume ex Miq.
  • Phaseolus ficifolius Schrank
  • Phaseolus lobatus (Willd.) Roxb. ex Wight & Arn.
  • Phaseolus trilobus Aiton
  • Pueraria argyi H.Lév. & Vaniot
  • Pueraria bodinieri H.Lév. & Vaniot
  • Pueraria caerulea H.Lév. & Vaniot
  • Pueraria chinensis (Benth.) Ohwi
  • Pueraria harmsii Rech.

and 28 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.