Partridge Pea

Chamaecrista fasciculata (Michx.) Greene

Fabaceae (Legume Family)

 

▲▼ young plants

▲ colony of flowering plants

▲▼ individual mature plants

▲▼ flowers and leaves

▲seed pods

Partridge Pea:

· Annual with alternate pinnately-compound leaves, like a “sensitive plant” or mimosa tree

· Grows 8-36 inches tall, with little branching

· Yellow, rounded flowers 0.5-1.5 inches diameter, in axils of leaves

· Fruit is a flattened pod 1-3 inches long

· Can cause “scours” in cattle grazing on them