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Plant · P-098
Partridge Pea
Chamaecrista fasciculata
Partridge Pea is a warm-season annual nitrogen fixer whose extrafloral nectaries feed the ants, wasps and flies that provide natural pest control, and whose seed and standing cover feed bobwhite quail and other wild birds through winter. It blooms June through October, drawing native bees and bumble bees, but the leaves and seed contain a cathartic anthraquinone that survives drying, so it is toxic to cattle even in cured hay - keep it out of grazing paddocks and hay meadows; deer browse it without harm.
Record at a glance
Growing profile
- Sun
- Full Sun · Partial Sun
- USDA zone
- USDA 3–9
- Soil
- Sand · Loam · Clay
- Moisture
- Dry · Well-Drained · Moderate
Vertical layer
Herbaceous- Soil pH
- 6–8
- Plant type
- Annual
- Mature height
- 36 in
- Mature spread
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