Lindheimer's Senna
Senna lindheimeriana
Lindheimer's senna is a velvety-leaved Texas perennial with spikes of golden flowers in late summer, a drought-tolerant native legume that is a larval host for cloudless sulphur and other sulphur butterflies.
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Type
- shrub
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 2–5 ft
- Spacing
- 2–3 ft apart
- Light
- sun, part shade
- Soil moisture
- dry
- Soil pH
- alkaline
- Bloom
- August, September, October
- Bloom colors
- yellow
- Wildlife value
- songbirds, butterflies, larval host, pollinators
- Landscape uses
- hedge or screen, foundation
- Native states
- AZ, NM, TX
Related native plants
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- Shrubby Senna (Senna wislizeni)