Common Name: showy rattlebox
Family: Fabaceae
Common Synonyms: none
USDA Hardiness Zone: 9a-11
Growth Habit: Annual herb
Origin: Indomalaysia
FISC Category: -
FDACS Listed Noxious Weed: No
Introduction Date: Earliest Florida specimen vouchered in 1928.
IFAS Assessment:
Annual herb from to 1.5 m tall. Stems are green or purple and can be ribbed. Leaves alternate, simple, 5-15 cm long, broadest near the end, glabrous above, pubescent below. Flowers are showy, yellow, 2.5 cm across. Seed pods are cylindrical and inflated, 5 cm long.
Mostly disturbed areas
Flowers inflorescence larger, flowers larger than C. pallida var. obovata
NA
Dave's Garden. 2014. PlantFiles: Rattlebox, Crotolaria spectabilis. http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/2337/. Accessed on June 20, 2014.
Geosyatems Research Institute. 2014. Invasive Plant Atlas of the Midsouth: Crotolaria spectabilis. http://www.gri.msstate.edu/ipams/species.php?CName=Showy%20rattlebox. Accessed on June 24, 2013.
IFAS. 2014. Seasonal Weed Control for Northeast Florida. University of Florida. http://nfbfg.ifas.ufl.edu/documents/Seasonal_weeds_NE_FL_web.pdf. Accessed on June 24, 2014.