Sensitive Partridge Pea
Chamaecrista nictitans
Sensitive partridge pea is an annual legume with small yellow flowers and leaflets that fold when touched, a nitrogen-fixer whose extrafloral nectaries feed ants and pollinators and whose foliage hosts sulphur butterflies.
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Type
- shrub
- Lifespan
- annual
- Height
- 0.5–1.5 ft
- Spacing
- 0.5–1 ft apart
- Light
- sun
- Soil moisture
- dry, wet
- Soil pH
- acidic, alkaline
- Bloom
- July, August
- Bloom colors
- yellow
- Wildlife value
- pollinators, mammals, songbirds
- Landscape uses
- naturalizing
- Native states
- AL, AR, AZ, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, MI, MO, MS, NC, NH, NJ, NM, NY, OH, OK, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, VA, VT, WI, WV