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Hemp Sesbania

Sesbania herbacea (P. Mill.) McVaugh

(formerly Sesbania exaltata)

Fabaceae (Legume Family, Bean Family)

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▼▲young plants

young plants ▲▼

Bob with mature, flowering plants

mature flowering plants

plant stem with flowers, fruit pods

close-up of flowers, leaves

fruit pod

leaf top , bottom

senescing plant with many fruit pods

Hemp Sesbania:  

*      annual weed with medium green, pinnately compound leaves with  20-70 small oval leaflets

*      stems green, with some ridges toward the top—terminal leaf canopy turns to face sun, creating windmill-like appearance; grows 3-10’ tall

*      flowers yellow-orange in axils of leaves followed by long, jointed, 4-sided pods and orange-green-brown seeds inside

*      found in wet soils, disturbed sites—common cropland weed in southeast Missouri

 

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