aka Spurred Butterfly Pea

I'm looking for seed. So far I can only find Etsy sellers and a place in FL that looks scammy (for one thing the site pays a service to hide them from Whois). Does anybody have a reliable source for this?

@stone may be able to help you out with this

Hmmm....
Where are you gardening at "Pyewacket"?

Centrosema seems to already grow pretty much anywhere that hasn't been poisoned or planted in turf in my area... Sadly, some people seem to unimpressed because it's already growing at their house... and pull it as a "weed".

Not sure whether I've collected seed recently enough to still be viable... will check when I get home... if I remember...

It's very slow to bloom from seed or transplant....

I'm in Lubbock which is nominally 7b, but we have weird weather. We had 90 degree weather in Feb but our last frost (so far) was just in the last couple of days. Ground temps are not up to 60F yet. We get almost no rain. Then it pours and there's a river where the street used to be. No gutters here and no storm drains.

I'm not in a hurry for blossoms. Its likely it won't be frost killed until into November, or at least well into October. It counts as a Texas Native, I like its looks, and I think it'll look good over where the gate to the back yard is. If I understand its growth habits correctly, I should be able to trellis it and it won't grow 20' overnight and eat the fence or pull the bricks out on the house side. You know. Like Trumpet Vine.

Pyewacket said: I'm in Lubbock...
We get almost no rain.
It counts as a Texas Native

While a Texas native... Not necessarily native to west texas.

I find centrosema growing in acidic sandy soil...
Not sure it would grow in alkaline clay on 20 inches of annual rain.

I did find a dozen seed that I collected a couple years ago.
Send a tree mail with your mailing address and I'll drop these in an envelope.

Got the seeds today. I'll try to start them in pots. Hope something comes up! Thank you so much for the seeds, I'll keep you posted.