Common Name Type Family Native Range Zone Height Spread Bloom Time Bloom Description Sun Water Maintenance Suggested Use Flower Leaf Fruit Tolerate |
Emperor’s Candlesticks Broadleaf Evergreen Fabaaceae Northern South America 9 to 11 5.00 to 8.00 ft 3.00 to 4.00 ft Seasonal Bloomer Yellow Full Sun Medium Low Annual Showy Evergreen Showy Drought |
Best grown in medium moisture, well-drained, sandy or clay soils in full sun. Tolerates heat and humidity. Senna marilandica, commonly called wild senna, is an erect, shrubby, Missouri native herbaceous perennial which typically occurs in open woods and wet meadows and grows 4-6′ tall. Features axillary racemes of brownish-yellow, pea-like flowers clustered atop unbranched stems in summer. Flowers give way to pendant, pea-like seed pods (to 4″ long) which turn black in fall and persist on the plants well after the plant has in the normal course died back to the ground. Feathery, compound, locust-like, dull green leaves (4-8 pairs of oval leaflets). Formerly known as and often still sold as Cassia marilandica. |
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