Wild Senna - Central, Eastern US Native, One of Nature's Legumes

Wild Senna is is a fast growng perennial. It is often mistaken for a shurb or small tree but it is completely herbaceous and dies back each year.  It is an essential food source for turkeys and other birds, host plant for various butterflies and helps to provide forage for bees and butterflies. Wild Senna loves full sun.  It's range is East of the Mississippi with the exception of Florida and Mississippi. And is also found throughout Iowa. 

Botanical Name: Senna hebecarpa

Characteristics: 

• Perennial, Self-seeding
• Plants grow to 4-6' feet tall
• Yellow blooms
• Prefers moist and well draining dry soils, can be grown in clay if not in standing water. 
• 1 gram or ~75-110 Seeds per packet 

Instructions - Direct sow when the soil can be worked. Seeds should be cold moist stratified and scarcified.  

•  Sow 1/4 deep
• Germination 8-17 days after cold stratification period.

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