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Twin-flowered cassia

Senna pallida

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 Mexico.January 84, February 88, March 53, April 83, May 21, June 12, July 5, August 3, September 30, October 72, November 51, December 60.
Mexico562
Sinaloa279
Oaxaca97
Sonora42
Chiapas33
Baja California Sur21
Jalisco15
Nayarit13
Quintana Roo11
United States10

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
Genussennas · Senna

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Twin-flowered cassia with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.