Senna (Cassia) marilandica
Wild Senna
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In the summer, clusters of brownish yellow pea-like flowers top unbranched stems on this perennial. In fall, to pea-like pods up to four inches long turn black and remains ornamental through the winter. A shrubby herbaceous perennial with feathery, locust-like dull green leaves that makes a great, back-row plant for the flower bed. It is the larval food source for two sulphur butterflies.
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USDA Hardiness Zone 4-9
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Good Companions
Shining Blue Star
(Amsonia illustris),
Marsh Milkweed
(Asclepias incarnata),
New England Aster
(Symphyotrichum novae-angliae),
Rose Turtlehead
(Chelone obliqua),
Elderberry
(Sambucus canadensis)
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