OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fabales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Senna marilandica   FAMILY Fabaceae   Go to FSUS key



INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Senna marilandica   FAMILY Fabaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Senna marilandica

INCLUDED WITHIN Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)

Senna marilandica

INCLUDED WITHIN 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, 1938)

Ditremexa medsgeri

 

COMMON NAME:
Maryland Wild Senna, Maryland Senna


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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

        

image of Senna marilandica, Maryland Wild Senna, Maryland Senna

    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 (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

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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).


click here to see other plants that look similar to this COMPARE pinnately compound leaves of forbs

image of Senna marilandica, Maryland Wild Senna, Maryland Senna

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_senna_marilandica_12c

August        

Similar to S. hebecarpa, but with fewer flowers, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).

image of Senna marilandica, Maryland Wild Senna, Maryland Senna

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 (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).

image of Senna marilandica, Maryland Wild Senna, Maryland Senna

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 OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Senna marilandica   FAMILY Fabaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Senna marilandica   FAMILY Fabaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Senna marilandica

INCLUDED WITHIN Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)
Senna marilandica

INCLUDED WITHIN 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, 1938)
Ditremexa medsgeri

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

3784

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Dry to moist forests, especially on greenstone and diabase barrens and rocky woodlands, thickets, woodland borders, sometimes somewhat weedy, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Uncommon (rare in Coastal Plain)

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LEAVES:
Even-pinnately compound: 8-22 leaflets
Mostly alternate

FLOWER:
Summer
Yellow
5-lobed calyx
5 petals
10 stamens, the upper 3 sterile, the lower 7 fertile & unequal in size
Superior ovary
Bisexual

Flowers in a raceme

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Legume

 

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