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Crotalaria laburnifolia
Birdflower (Crotalaria laburnifolia) is a highly variable shrub or perennial in the pea family, grown for its yellow pea-like flowers and rattling seed pods. It thrives in warm, sunny, well-drained sites and tolerates dry spells once established.
Crotalaria laburnifolia, called the rattle pod, is a highly variable species of flowering plant in the genus Crotalaria, widely distributed in central, eastern and southern Africa, the Seychelles, the Indian Subcontinent, Thailand, the Lesser Sunda Islands, Java, and Queensland in Australia. It has been introduced into Western Australia. It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
Birdflower · Sunn hemp · Longbeak rattlebox · Smooth rattlebox · Rattleweed · Showy rattlebox
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Crotalaria laburnifolia 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.
