Desert Senna

Description:

Perennial to 2'. Flowers pale yellow with 5 petals to 1" wide. Fruit a woody, brown pod that splits down the middle and persists on the plant. Leaves simple pinnately compound, usually with 3 pairs of leaflets per leaf. Leaves grayish-green with fine hairs. Fabaceae (Legume) Family.

Habitat:

Sabino Canyon is a natural desert oasis located in Tucson’s Coronado National Forest and is home to spectacular desert landscapes and abundant wildlife. During the winter and summer rainy seasons, pools of water form in rocky outcroppings that wind up among hillsides resplendent with palo verde trees, cholla and prickly pear cactus and graceful groves of ocotillo.