Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fabales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Senna marilandica
FAMILY
Fabaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Maryland Senna from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Senna marilandica
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-05-004:
Cassia marilandica
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Ditremexa medsgeri
COMMON NAME:
Maryland Senna, Maryland Wild Senna
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_cama15_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_came23_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide pnd_sema11_002_lvd
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sdw_wildsenna_2
July Transylvania County NC
Panthertown
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JK Marlow jkm190801_0439
August Buncombe County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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JK Marlow jkm190801_0441
August Buncombe County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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JK Marlow jkm190801_0442
August Buncombe County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_senna_marilandica_10
August
Inflorescence a few-flowered axillary raceme or terminal paniculate cluster, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_senna_marilandica_12
August
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_senna_marilandica_12b
August
The petiolar gland is usually broadest at or below the middle, per Weakley's Flora (2012).
COMPARE
pinnately compound leaves of forbs
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_senna_marilandica_12c
August
Similar to S. hebecarpa, but with fewer flowers, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_senna_marilandica_4
August
Flowers not obviously pea-like, petals open to expose the stamens, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Bruce A. Sorrie bas_senna_marilandica3e
September
Legume 8-11mm wide, with narrow segments (much shorter than broad), glabrous, per Weakley's Flora (2018).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Senna marilandica
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Senna marilandica
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-05-004:
Cassia marilandica
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Ditremexa medsgeri
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Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Uncommon (rare in Coastal Plain)
Look for it in dry to moist forests, especially on greenstone and diabase barrens and rocky woodlands, thickets, woodland borders, sometimes somewhat weedy, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
LEAVES:
Even-pinnately compound: 8-22 leaflets
Mostly alternate
FLOWER:
Summer
Yellow
Bisexual
5-lobed calyx
5 petals
10 stamens, the upper 3 sterile, the lower 7 fertile & unequal in size
Superior ovary
Flowers in a raceme
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Legume
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p028
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p139
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p176
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p074