Senna hebecarpa - Northern Wild Senna

Sizes available: #1 (Trade gallon)

Basics: zones 3-9, 36-48" x 2.5', full sun to high, light shade, during the mid to late summer clustered, yellow pea-like flowers develop into attractive seedpods, drought-tolerant, likes moist to average soil and good drainage

Common names: Northern Wild Senna

Family: Fabaceae

Origin/Distribution: Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center says native in Ontario and Maine south to Georgia, west to Tennessee and further north and west to Wisconsin. Go Botany says not native to Maine, but native to all other New England states. 

Habitat: disturbed sites, moist, open woodland, floodplain, low places in meadows and fields, river and lakeshore 

More: Rugged, nitrogen-fixer with attractive pinnate leaves and a shrubby appearance. Attractive to pollinators. This is an easy-going and good looking native plant that will seed around if happy. Although found in moist places, this plant is very drought tolerant. Wild Turkeys enjoy the seeds. The leaves and seeds have been used medicinally.

Nursery: Van Berkum

Image credits: Wikimedia Commons, Honey Petal Plants