Partridge Pea, Sleeping Plant
Scientific Name: Chamaecrista fasciculata
Patridge pea is an annual native to Alachua County that readily self-seeds. At night, the leaves close up. As a legume, it fixes nitrogen in the soil. It likes full sun and soil that is neither wet nor extremely dry to soil that experiences very long very dry periods. It is a larval host for cloudless sulfur, gray hairstreak, orange sulphur, sleepy orange, little yellow, and ceraunus blue butterflies. Bees love it! Birds eat the seeds.
Scientific Name: Chamaecrista fasciculata
Patridge pea is an annual native to Alachua County that readily self-seeds. At night, the leaves close up. As a legume, it fixes nitrogen in the soil. It likes full sun and soil that is neither wet nor extremely dry to soil that experiences very long very dry periods. It is a larval host for cloudless sulfur, gray hairstreak, orange sulphur, sleepy orange, little yellow, and ceraunus blue butterflies. Bees love it! Birds eat the seeds.
Scientific Name: Chamaecrista fasciculata
Patridge pea is an annual native to Alachua County that readily self-seeds. At night, the leaves close up. As a legume, it fixes nitrogen in the soil. It likes full sun and soil that is neither wet nor extremely dry to soil that experiences very long very dry periods. It is a larval host for cloudless sulfur, gray hairstreak, orange sulphur, sleepy orange, little yellow, and ceraunus blue butterflies. Bees love it! Birds eat the seeds.