Partridge Pea

Chamaecrista fasciculata

Size: 1g availability

Flower
Max size: 3′ tall x 3′ wide

Usually Moist, Moist to Dry, Very Dry
Clay, Loam, Sand
Sun, Partial Sun
Salt Tolerance: Low, Some tolerance of salty wind but not salt spray.

A summer-to-fall yellow blooming annual in the pea family that helps to fix nitrogen in the soil. It is an annual, but it self-seeds readily. If you want to control the self-seeding, then deadhead when flowers start to fade and seedpods start to form. Seed pods are eaten by song and game birds, foliage is browsed by deer.
Larval host for the cloudless sulfur (Phoebis senna), gray hairstreak (Strymon melinus), orange sulphur (Colias eurytheme), sleepy orange (Abaeis nicippe), little yellow (Eurema lisa) and ceraunus blue (Hemiargus ceraunus) butterflies. Pollinated by long-tongued bees and butterflies, and also attracts wasps and flies. Documented bee species include Azcgochlora pura, Augochloropsis inetallica, A. sumnptuosa, Dialictzcs coreopsis, D. miniatulus, Megachile brevis pseudobrevis, M mendica, Bolnbz~s impatiens, and Xylocopa micarzs.