| Scientific Name | Sesbania drummondii | ||||||||||||
| Family Name | Bean ( Fabaceae ) | ||||||||||||
| Pealike Flowers
Upright perenial 2-10 ft. Stems from woody base, usually much branched in upper portion. Branches thin, widely spreading. Plant dies back to ground level every winter. Flower To 1/2 inch, five orange-yellow petals, often lined with red. The banner upright and longer than other petals. Flowers few to several, long stalked, loosely clustered in elongated raceme from leaf axils. Leaves 4-8 inch, alternate, shortstalked, the blade once divided into 20-25 segments or leaflets. Leaflets mostly 1/2 to 1 1/4 inch long about 1/4 inch wide. Fruit is a large, conspicuously four-sided pod containing several seeds reportedly toxic to livestock. When the pods become mature and dry, the seeds loosen and rattle inside if the plant is moved. | |||||||||||||
May - October
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