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Chamaecrista fasciculata
Also called Showy Partridge Pea, Golden Cassia, Prairie Senna, Sensitive Pea, Large Flowered Sensitive Pea, Showy Partridgepea, Sleepingplant
Partridge pea is a native annual legume of the eastern United States, grown for its bright yellow summer flowers and as a soil-building cover plant for erosion control. Give it full sun and sandy or poor soil, and it will self-seed readily.
Chamaecrista fasciculata, the partridge pea, is a species of legume native to most of the eastern United States. It is an annual which grows to approximately 0.5 meters (1 ft 8 in) tall. It has bright yellow flowers from early summer until first frost, with flowers through the entire flowering season if rainfall is sufficient.
The flowers are hermaphroditic, although a fraction of plants, less than 5%, do not produce sufficient pollen to reproduce as males. This phenomenon has been studied in a variety of plants as a possible evolutionary step towards dioecy, in which male and female flowers occur on separate plants. C. fasciculata is pollinated only by bees.
The partridge pea is found in the eastern United States, excluding Vermont, Maine, and New Hampshire, west to New Mexico, South Dakota, and Minnesota.
Historically, the Cherokee tribe used partridge pea as a medicinal remedy for spells of fainting and to prevent fatigue in ball players. The Seminole tribe used it to alleviate nausea and also utilized the plant as a bed for ripening persimmons.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Chamaecrista fasciculata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
