Chamaecrista fasciculata

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
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• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Subfamily Caesalpinioideae

Mostly trees or shrubs . Leaves mostly pinnate, sometimes bipinnate, rarely apparently simple . Corolla usually showy, zygomorphic, the petals imbricate, posterior (upper or banner ) petal innermost in bud. Stamens 10 or fewer, distinct , usually not showy, some commonly reduced to staminodes. Pollen released in monads . Seeds with u-shaped line (pleurogram) usually lacking. [Carr]

Physical Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 1,412 meters (0 to 4,633 feet).[1]

Biology

Reproduction

Duration: Annual • Coppice Potential: No • Progagated by Bulbs: No • Propagated by Bare Root: No • Propagated by Container: No • Propagated by Corms: No • Propagated by Cuttings: No • Propagated by Seed: Yes • Propagated by Sod: No • Propagated by Sprigs: No • Propagated by Tubers: No • Fruit/Seed Period Begin: Summer • Fruit/Seed Period End: Summer • Fruit/Seed Persistence: No

Growth

Culture: Space 24-36" apart.

Soil: Adapted to Medium Textured: Adapted to Medium Textured Soils • Adapted to Coarse Textured Soils: Yes • Anaerobic Tolerance: None • Salinity Tolerance: Low • CaCO3 Tolerance: Low • Minimum pH: 6.5 • Maximum pH: 7.5 • Fertility Requirement: Medium

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Sun to Partial Shade. • Shade Tolerance: Intolerant

Moisture: Drought Tolerance: Medium • Minimum Precipitation: 14 • Maximum Precipitation: 65 • Moisture Use: Medium

Temperature: Minimum Temperature (F): -3 • Minimum Frost Free Days: 130

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Cassia brachiata (Pollard)j. F. Macbr. • Cassia chamaecrista L. • Cassia chamaecrista var. robusta Pollard • Cassia depressa Pollard • Cassia fasciculata Michx. • Cassia fasciculata var. brachiata (Pollard)isely • Cassia fasciculata var. depressa (Pollard)j. F. Macbr. • Cassia fasciculata var. ferrisiae (Britton)b. L. Turner • Cassia fasciculata var. littoralis (Pollard)j. F. Macbr. • Cassia fasciculata var. macrosperma Fernald • Cassia fasciculata var. puberula (Greene)j. F. Macbr. • Cassia fasciculata var. robusta (Pollard)j. F. Macbr. • Cassia fasciculata var. rostrata (Wooton and Standl.)b. L. Turner • Cassia fasciculata var. tracyi (Pollard)j. F. Macbr. • Cassia fisheri Cory • Cassia greenei Standl. • Cassia littoralis (Pollard)cory • Cassia mississipiensis Pollard • Cassia pulchella Salisb. • Cassia robusta (Pollard)pollard • Cassia rostrata (Wooton and Standl.)tiderstr. • Cassia triflora Jacq. • Cassia venosa Zuccagni • Chamaecrista bellula Pollard • Chamaecrista brachiata Pollard • Chamaecrista camporum Greene • Chamaecrista chamaecrista (L.)britton • Chamaecrista depressa (Pollard)greene • Chamaecrista fasciculata var. robusta (Pollard)moldenke • Chamaecrista ferrisiae Britton and Rose • Chamaecrista littoralis Pollard • Chamaecrista mississippiensis (Pollard)a. Heller • Chamaecrista puberula Greene • Chamaecrista robusta (Pollard)a. Heller • Chamaecrista rostrata Wooton and Standl. • Chamaecrista tracyi Pollard • Grimaldia chamaecrista Link • Xamacrista triflora Raf.

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Comment: Climbing : Not climbing, Habit: Herb, Lifespan: Annual

Similar Species

Members of the genus Chamaecrista

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 39 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

C. absus (Tropical Sensitive Pea) · C. absus var. absus (Tropical Sensitive-Pea) · C. absus var. meonandra (Tropical Sensitive Pea) · C. brevifolia (Mandri-Arivou) · C. calycioides (Woodland Sensitive Pea) · C. chamaecristoides (Beach Sensitive Pea) · C. chamaecristoides var. cruziana (Beach Sensitive Pea) · C. deeringiana (Florida Keys Sensitive Pea) · C. diphylla (Twoleaf Sensitive Pea) · C. fasciculata (Beach Sensitive Pea) · C. fasciculata var. macrosperma (Sleepingplant) · C. flexuosa (Texas Sensitive Pea) · C. flexuosa var. texana (Texas Sensitive Pea) · C. glandulosa (Jamaican Broom) · C. glandulosa mirabilis var. mirabilis (Jamaican Broom) · C. glandulosa var. glandulosa (Jamaican Broom) · C. glandulosa var. swartzii (Swartz's Jamaican Broom) · C. greggii (Gregg's Sensitive Pea) · C. leschenaultiana (Cassia) · C. lineata (Narrowpod Sensitive Pea) · C. lineata var. brachyloba (Narrowpod Sensitive Pea) · C. lineata var. keyensis (Big Pine Partridge Pea) · C. lomatopoda (Chamaecrista) · C. mimosoides (Chamaecrista) · C. nictitans (Partridge Pea) · C. nictitans nictitans var. nictitans (Partridge Pea) · C. nictitans patellaria var. Patellaria (Partridge Pea) · C. nictitans var. aspera (Partridge Pea) · C. nictitans var. diffusa (Partridge Pea) · C. nictitans var. glabrata (Partidge Pea) · C. nictitans var. leptadenia (Partridge Pea) · C. pilosa (Hairy Sensitive Pea) · C. portoricensis (Puerto Rico Sensitive Pea) · C. potentilla (Cinquefoil) · C. ramosa (Savannah Sensitive Pea) · C. rotundifolia (Roundleaf Sensitive Pea) · C. serpens (Slender Sensitive Pea) · C. serpens var. serpens (Slender Sensitive Pea) · C. serpens var. wrightii (Shrubby Senna)

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Further Reading

• A guide to the wild flowers east of the Mississippi and north of Virginia / by Norman Taylor. New York: Greenberg, 1928. url p. 129.
• Addisonia: colored illustrations and popular descriptions of plants. 13 1928 New York: New York Botanical Garden, 1916-[1964]. url p. 55.
• An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions: from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian / by Nathaniel Lord Britton and Hon. Addison Brown. New York: Scribner, 1913. url p. 337, p. 337.
• Annotated list of the ferns and flowering plants of New York state, by Homer D. House. Albany, The University of the state of New York, 1924. url p. 435.
• Annual report / Albany: University of the State of New York, 1902-1918. url p. 60.
• Annual report / Florida State Geological Survey. Tallahassee, Fla.: Capital Pub. Co., state printer, url p. 100, p. 116, p. 236, p. 275, p. 286, p. 294, p. 299, p. 307, p. 408.
• Botanical abstracts. Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins Co. url p. 262.
• Britton, N. L. (ed.). North American flora. 7 1907 [New York]New York Botanical Garden. url p. 139, p. 296, p. 625.
• Bulletin / Ohio Biological Survey. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University, 1913- url p. 188.
• Bulletin of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. [Washington, D.C.?]: Supt. of Docs., G.P.O., 1913-1923. url p. 45, p. 51.
• Catalog of Ohio vascular plants, arranged according to the phyletic classification; with notes on the geographical distribution in the state, based mainly on specimens in the State Herbarium, Botanical Laboratory, the Ohio State Univ Columbus, The Ohio State University, 1914. url .
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• Contributions from the New York Botanical Garden. New York: The Garden, 1899- url p. 347, p. 351, p. 352.
• Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 8 1903-1905 Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1890- url p. 113, p. 135, p. 181, p. 335.
• Erigenia: journal of the Illinois Native Plant Society. Carbondale, Ill.: The Society, 1982- url p. 22, p. 28.
• Flora of Colorado, Fort Collins, Col., Experiment Station, 1906. url .
• Flora of Colorado, by P. A. Rydberg, PH. D. Fort Collins, Col., Experiment Station, 1906. url p. 194.
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• Flora of Indiana, by Charles C. Deam. Indianapolis, Wm. B. Burford printing co., contractor for state printing and binding, 1940. url p. 1181, p. 587, p. 588.
• Flora of Lancaster County: being descriptions of the seed-plants growing naturally in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania / by John Kunkel Small and Joel Jackson Carter. New York: The authors, 1913. url p. 159.
• Flora of New Mexico / by E.O. Wooton and Paul C. Standley. Washington: G.P.O., 1915. url p. 335.
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• Flora of the District of Columbia and vicinity. By A.S. Hitchcock and Paul C. Standley, with the assistance of the botanists of Washington. WashingtonGovt. print. off.1919 url p. 181.
• Flora of the Indiana dunes, a handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the lake Michigan Coast of Indiana and of the Calumet District, by Donald Culross Peattie. Chicago, Field Museum of Natural History, 1930. url p. 233.
• Flora of the Rocky Mountains and adjacent plains, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and neighboring parts of Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, and British Columbia / by P.A. Rydberg. New York: The author, 1922. url p. 453.
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• Key to the Rocky Mountain flora; Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and parts of Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, and British Columbia. New York, 1919. url p. 129.
• Lake Maxinkuckee. A physical and biological survey by Barton Warren Evermann and Howard Walton Clark. [Indianapolis]Dept. of Conservation, State of Indiana [Wm. B. Burford, printer]1920. url p. 338.
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Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed January 27, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
• ILDIS World Database of Legumes. Release date: May 1, 2007
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal January 28, 2008:

• Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
• USDA PLANTS, USDA PLANTS Database
• University of Alabama Biodiversity and Systematics, Herbarium

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3876410
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ILD-13622
• GRIN Nomen Number: 100081
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 501383
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 54501-2
• MoBot NameID: 13048501
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: PDFAB47050
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: CHFA2
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 29981

Footnotes

1. Mean = 195.230 meters (640.518 feet), Standard Deviation = 197.980 based on 1,049 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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