Fabaceae
Oxeye bean
Mucuna urens
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Mucuna
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Common names
By language (3)
- Arabic
- ميقونة حارقة
- English
- Oxeye bean
- Haitian Creole
- Jabourik
Synonyms
- Cacuvallum altissimus Medik.
- Canavalia altissima (Jacq.) Macfad.
- Clitoria zoophthalmum L.
- Dolichos altissimus Jacq.
- Dolichos urens L.
- Hornera altissima (Jacq.) Neck.
- Hornera urens (L.) Neck.
- Labradia urens (L.) Swediaur
- Mucuna altissima (Jacq.) DC.
- Mucuna altissima var. pilosula Benth.
- Mucuna umbellata Salzm. ex Benth.
- Negretia sericea Willd. ex Steud.
- Negretia urens (L.) Tussac
- Phaseolus pruriens Noronha
- Stizolobium altissimum (Jacq.) Pers.
- Stizolobium urens (L.) Pers.
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Vine
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Puerto Rico: native
Photos
Photo: Dick Culbert from Gibsons, B.C., Canada, CC BY 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Makoto Makoto, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: Roger Culos & JP Chéreau, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Brazil Coruja, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: Dick Culbert from Gibsons, B.C., Canada, CC BY 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Makoto Makoto, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: Makoto Makoto, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: Gabriele Kothe-Heinrich, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Arn, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: vinicius_s_domingues, CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Liu Idárraga Orozco, CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.