Description ³

Fabaceae | American senna/northern wild senna
Clusters of light yellow to orange flowers atop a sparsely branched perennial or in axils of compound leaves.

Habitat: Moist open woods and disturbed areas.

Flowers: 3/4" wide; petals 5, slightly unequal; stamens 10, prominent, unequal, with conspicuous, brown anthers opening by 2 pores.

Leaves: 6-8" long, pinnately compound; leaflets oblong, blunt, each about 1" long, in 5-9 pairs; club-shaped gland near base of stalk.

Fruit: Flat, narrow, curved, segmented, very hairy bod, with joints as long as broad.

Thieret, J. W., Niering, W. A., & Olmstead, N. C. (2001). National Audubon Society field guide to North American wildflowers: eastern region (Chanticleer Press ed.). New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

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