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Seymeria cassioides
Also called Yaupon black senna, Senna Seymeria
Yaupon blacksenna is a small annual wildflower from the southeastern US coastal plain that grows as a root parasite on pine trees. It is not a garden plant and is hard to cultivate, since it depends on a living pine host.
Seymeria cassioides, commonly called yaupon black-senna or senna seymeria, is a species of annual forb found in North America. It is a species of obligate hermiparasite found on various species of pine.
Within the United States S. cassioides can be found within the Coastal Plain region of the southeast. Its range stretches from Virginia to Florida and west to Texas. There also exist disjunct populations in the Bahamas.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Seymeria cassioides 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.
