Botanical Name:   Cassia fasciculata

Common Names:   Partridge Pea

Plant type:   annual

Host for:   Host plant for Sleepy Orange Eurema nicippe, Cloudless Sulphur Phoebis sennae, Gray Hairstreak Strymom melinus, and Ceraunus Blue Hemiargus ceraunus.

Zone:   8a - 11

Light:   Full sun to light shade

Size:   1 - 2 feet

Water:   Average water needs, tolerates drought

Soil:   Poor to average garden soil

Propagation:   seed

Bloom:   yellow

Note:    All parts of plant are posionous.

Note: Cloudless Sulphur caterpillars are green when they eat leaves. In the fall when the yellow flowers and flower buds appear, Cloudless Sulphur caterpillars which eat the blooms and buds will be yellow.

Butterfly Bloom Attractant:   none




Butterfly Attractant Scale:    0 - 10
10 = Excellent nectar source
8-9 = Great nectar source
6-7 = Good nectar source
5 = Fair nectar source
3-4 = Poor nectar source
1-2 = Rarely visited by butterflies
0 = We have never observed a butterfly nectaring from this flowering plant.

These ratings are offered by Shady Oak Butterfly Farm from observations in Brooker, Florida, as well as on our travels. Different species of butterflies may be attracted to different plants in different areas of the US and of the world.

Botanical Name:   Cassia fasciculata

Common Names:   Partridge Pea

Plant type:   annual

Host for:   Host plant for Sleepy Orange Eurema nicippe, Cloudless Sulphur Phoebis sennae, Gray Hairstreak Strymom melinus, and Ceraunus Blue Hemiargus ceraunus.

Zone:   8a - 11

Light:   Full sun to light shade

Size:   1 - 2 feet

Water:   Average water needs, tolerates drought

Soil:   Poor to average garden soil

Propagation:   seed

Bloom:   yellow

Note:    All parts of plant are posionous.

Note: Cloudless Sulphur caterpillars are green when they eat leaves. In the fall when the yellow flowers and flower buds appear, Cloudless Sulphur caterpillars which eat the blooms and buds will be yellow.

Butterfly Bloom Attractant:   none




Butterfly Attractant Scale:    0 - 10
10 = Excellent nectar source
8-9 = Great nectar source
6-7 = Good nectar source
5 = Fair nectar source
3-4 = Poor nectar source
1-2 = Rarely visited by butterflies
0 = We have never observed a butterfly nectaring from this flowering plant.

These ratings are offered by Shady Oak Butterfly Farm from observations in Brooker, Florida, as well as on our travels. Different species of butterflies may be attracted to different plants in different areas of the US and of the world.