Botanical Name: Cassia fasciculata or Senna fasciculata

Common Names: Partridge Pea

Plant type: Annual

Zone: 8a to 11

Light: Full sun to light shade

Size: 1 - 2 feet tall

Water: Average water needs, tolerates drought

Soil: Poor to average garden soil

Propagation: Seed

Bloom: Yellow

Note: Host plant for Sleepy Orange Eurema nicippe, Cloudless Sulphur Phoebis sennae, Gray Hairstreak Strymom melinus, and Ceraunus Blue Hemiargus ceraunus.

Note: All parts of plant are posionous.

Note: Cloudless Sulphur caterpillars are green when they eat leaves. In the fall when the yellow flowers and flower buds appear, Cloudless Sulphur caterpillars which eat the blooms and buds will be yellow.