Common Name: valamuerto
Family: Fabaceae
Common Synonyms: Cassia bicapsularis
USDA Hardiness Zone: 8b-11
Growth Habit: Shrub
Origin: South America
FISC Category: 1
FDACS Listed Noxious Weed: No
Introduction Date: 1930s
IFAS Assessment:
Sprawling evergreen shrub to 4 m tall and wide, with somewhat zigzag, sparsely hairy stems. Leaves alternate, stalked, even-pinnately compound. Leaflets in 3-6 pairs, oblong with rounded tips, terminal largest, to 4 cm long. Petioles with gland above, between lowermost leaflets and occasionally between others. Flowers yellow, 3-4 cm across, in 3- to 12-flowered showy racemes near stem tips. Stamen filaments prominent, curved. Fruit a brown slender, cylindric, glabrous pod 7-12 cm long.
Hardwood hammock, basin swamp, coastal strands and canal banks
Plants will come back if tops killed by freezing. Showy flowers produced in late fall to early winter.
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Dave's Garden. 2014. PlantFiles: Valamuerto, Senna pendula. http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/142451/. Accessed on June 20, 2014.
Langeland, K.A., H.M. Cherry, C.M. McCormick, K.C. Burks. 2008. Identification and Biology of Non-Native Plants in Florida's Natural Areas-Second Edition. IFAS Publication SP 257. University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
Queensland Government. 2013. Weeds of Australia: Fact Sheet - Easter cassia (Senna pendula var. glabrata). http://www.daff.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/66712/IPA-Easter-Cassia-PP79.pdf. Accessed on June 26, 2014.