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Yellow Sensitive Plant

Neptunia triquetra

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) pseudoshuigeeee, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)

2 photos

Study shows up to four per card, from different observers, so you learn the species rather than one picture. Heart the good ones and swap any you do not like.

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Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Japan.January 0, February 0, March 0, April 0, May 0, June 0, July 1, August 0, September 0, October 0, November 0, December 0.
Japan1
Okinawa Prefecture1

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

  • Medicinal useListed as having medicinal use by a harvested source. This is not medical advice.Kew World Checklist of Useful Plant Species
  • Nitrogen fixingDescends from a plant lineage commonly associated with nitrogen-fixing symbioses.Inferred from its group

Edibility, toxicity and medicinal traits are records from datasets, not advice. Never eat, handle or use a wild species on the strength of an app.

Classification

KingdomPlants · Plantae
PhylumVascular Plants · Tracheophyta
ClassDicots · Magnoliopsida
OrderLegumes, Milkworts, and Allies · Fabales
FamilyLegumes · Fabaceae
GenusNeptunia

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Yellow Sensitive Plant with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.