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Fabaceae

Smooth senna

Senna sulfurea (DC. ex Collad.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby

Family
Fabaceae
Genus
Senna

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Smooth senna: Fabaceae (pea, or legume family) » Senna sulfurea (Colladon) H. S. Irwin & Barneby SEN-nuh -- Latin form of Arabic word for a thorny bush sul-FER-ee-uh -- sulph
Photo: Dinesh Valke from Thane, India, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons

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Common names

By language (2)
Chinese
粉叶决明, 黃槐, 黄槐, 金凤
English
Smooth senna

Synonyms

  • Cassia arborescens Vahl
  • Cassia enneaphylla K.D.Koenig ex Wight & Arn.
  • Cassia glauca Lam.
  • Cassia petropolitana Glaz.
  • Cassia sieberi C.Presl
  • Cassia sulfurea DC. ex Collad.
  • Cassia surattensis subsp. glauca (Lam.) K.Larsen & S.S.Larsen
  • Psilorhegma glauca (Lam.) O.Deg. & I.Deg.
  • Robinia javanica Burm.f.
  • Senna arborescens Roxb.
  • Senna surattensis subsp. glauca (Lam.) X.Y.Zhu
  • Senna surattensis subsp. sulfurea (DC. ex Collad.) Randell
  • Wellia tagera Rheede

Characteristics

Growth habit
Shrub, Tree
Lifespan
Perennial
In the US and Canada
Hawaii: introduced

Photos

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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.