Wild Senna
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Wild Senna (Cassia) - The only hardy member of a great family, with us it is nearly herbaceous, dying back, and so deserving a warm place in a free soil. It is best in the southern counties. N. America.
Wild Senna (American Senna)
Senna hebecarpa (Cassia hebecarpa)
Wild senna is rare in Connecticut, and it is classified as a species of special concern by the state.
Wild Senna
Scientific Name: Senna marilandica (L.) Link
Synonym: Cassia marilandica, Cassia medsgeri, Ditremexa marilandica, Ditremexa medsgeri
Family: Fabaceae ...
Wild senna is indigenous to Suriname and it is found in secondary vegetation or along riverbanks on moist and even wet spots.
It is also a host plant to many species of sulphur caterpillars, included the orange barred sulphure.
Index- plants in this Family
Fabaceae / Pea Southern Wild Senna (Senna marilandica)
Southern Wild Senna is also known as American Senna, Wild Senna, Maryland Senna and Locust Plant and Tea Weed. Formerly considered in the genus Cassa. ...
longipila (Wild Senna) - S. hirsuta (Aytera Cimarrona) - S. hirsuta var. glaberrima (Woolly Senna) - S. hirsuta var. hirsuta (Woolly Senna) - S. italica (Italian Senna) - S. italica italica (Port Royal Senna) - S. ligustrina (Bahama Cassia) - S.
Marilandica or American Senna, Wild Senna, Poinciana pulcherima, formerly Maryland Senna, is a common perennial from New England to Northern Carolina. Its leaves are compressed into oblong cakes like other herbal preparations of the Shakers.
The wild senna (S. marylandica), a perennial of the E United States, has been similarly used. Golden shower (S. fistula) of India yields canafistula, a purgative extracted from the fruit pulp.
Chinese senna, foetid cassia, Java bean, Java-bean, low senna, peanut weed, sickle senna, sicklepod, sicklepod senns, stinking cassia, wild senna
Family ...
Cassia - Senna
Cassia leptophylla - Gold Medallion Tree
Cassia marilandica - Wild Senna
Cassia occidentalis - Coffee Senna ...
 See also: Senna, Cassia, Medic, India, Green
  
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