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Chamaecrista glandulosa
Also called Wild Peas
Jamaican broom is a native Caribbean and Central/South American legume shrub or subshrub with yellow pea-like flowers, grown mainly as a garden or pollinator plant in warm, frost-free areas. It is a species with several varieties, not a houseplant.
Chamaecrista glandulosa is a species of flowering plant in the legume family native to the Americas. Its distribution extends from Mexico to Brazil and it occurs on many Caribbean islands.
There are many varieties of this plant:
Chamaecrista aldabrensis · Tropical sensitive pea · Chamaecrista bucherae · Partridge pea · Chamaecrista · Sensitive partridge pea · Chota Aura · Roundleaf sensitive pea · Sensitive pea
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Chamaecrista glandulosa 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.
