Fabaceae
Yellow puff
Neptunia lutea
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Neptunia
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Common names
By language (2)
- Chinese
- 黃假含羞草, 黄假含羞草
- English
- Yellow puff
Synonyms
- Acacia lutea Hitchc.
- Acacia lutea Leavenw.
- Darlingtonia virgata Raf.
- Desmanthus luteus (Leavenw.) Benth. ex Chapm.
- Neptunia lutea var. multipinnata B.L.Turner
- Neptunia lutea var. tenuis (Benth.) Robinson
- Neptunia lutea var. tenuis (Benth.) B.L.Rob.
- Neptunia tenuis Benth.
- Neptunia virgata Trel.
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Lower 48 states: native
Photos
Photo: Wikimedia Commons contributor, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Eric Hunt, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.