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Hairy sensitive-pea, Hairy partridge-pea
Chamaecrista nictitans var. aspera
Fabaceae
 

Copyright by: Beryn Harty
In habitat, Monroe County, Florida, 2014

General Landscape Uses: A weed of disturbed sites. Not recommended for general landscape use.

Range: Southeastern United States south to the Monroe County Keys; the West Indies.

Plant Map Map of select IRC data from peninsular Florida.

 Map of Postal Code Areas of IRC data from peninsular Florida.

Wildlife and Ecology: Larval host plant for cloudless sulpher (Phoebis sennae) butterflies.

Copyright by: Beryn Harty
In habitat, Monroe County, Florida, 2014

Copyright by: Beryn Harty
In habitat, Monroe County, Florida, 2014

Copyright by: Beryn Harty
In habitat, Monroe County, Florida, 2014

Copyright by: Roger L. Hammer


Other data on available from:

Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants


 
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