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: (pp. 228-229, Weeds of the Great Plains; not in Weeds of the Northeast)

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

·         flowers yellow in axils of leaves

·          may cause “scours” in cattle grazing on them