Flowering Senna
Senna corymbosaFlowering Senna is a shrub from the Village of the Hills planting guide that grows 6–8 ft tall and 4–6 ft wide. It wants full sun or part shade and low to medium water. Deer rarely browse it.
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From our guide
Village of the HillsUpright shrub with bright green compound leaves and clusters of yellow flowers late in the season.
Why it works here
Late color when the garden is tired, and sulphur butterflies use it as a larval host.
Watch out
Reseeds enthusiastically. Freeze damage in a hard winter; cut back and it returns.
The facts
4 sources- Type
- Shrub
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade (3+ hrs)
- Water
- Low to medium
- Height
- 6–8 ft
- Spread
- 4–6 ft
- Foliage
- Semi-evergreen
- Deer
- High — deer rarely browse it. Foliage contains compounds deer avoid.
Where it grows
25 occurrence records in Central Texas (GBIF).
Can you buy it?
In the Village of the Hills guide, but not on the grower stock lists we read yet. Ask a native-plant nursery.