NameThatPlant.net: Senna marilandica

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fabales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Senna marilandica FAMILY Fabaceae Go to FSUS key

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Learn more about Maryland Senna from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Senna marilandica FAMILY Fabaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-05-004:

Cassia marilandica FAMILY Fabaceae

COMMON NAME:
Maryland Wild Senna, Maryland Senna

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Senna marilandica FAMILY Fabaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Senna marilandica FAMILY Fabaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-05-004:
Cassia marilandica FAMILY Fabaceae

3784

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Dry to moist forests, especially on greenstone and diabase barrens and rocky woodlands, thickets, woodland borders, sometimes somewhat weedy, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Uncommon (rare in Coastal Plain)

CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.

LEAVES:
Even-pinnately compound: 8-22 leaflets
Mostly alternate

FLOWER:
Summer
Yellow
5-lobed calyx
5 petals
10 stamens, the upper 3 sterile, the lower 7 fertile & unequal in size
Superior ovary
Bisexual

Flowers in a raceme

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Legume

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