Base de datos de plantas del FNPS

Chamaecrista fasciculata

sleeping plant, partridge-pea
  • Photo by: Mark Hutchinson, Hernando Chapter, FNPS
  • Photo by: Mark Hutchinson, Hernando Chapter, FNPS
  • Photo by: Mark Hutchinson, Hernando Chapter, FNPS
  • Photo by: John Bradford, Martin County Chapter FNPS
  • Photo by: John Bradford, Martin County Chapter FNPS
  • Photo by: Marjorie Shropshire, Martin County Chapter FNPS

Nomenclatura

Nombre común:

sleeping plant, partridge-pea

Sinónimo(s):

Cassia fasciculata

Especie del género:

Chamaecrista fasciculata

Familia:

Fabaceae (Leguminosae)

Especificaciones de la planta

Forma:

flower

Tamaño:

To 3 ft tall by To 3 ft wide

Esperanza de vida:

Long-lived perennial

Color de la flor:

yellow

Color de la fruta:

brown

Fenología:

Sprouts in early spring, blooms late spring, finished with reproduction by early fall and reseeds.

Destacado por:

Showy Flowers

Paisajismo

Usos recomendados:

Sometimes used for erosion control. Good in casual garden settings, especially useful for butterfly gardens, because it's a larval food for so many species of butterflies. It's a legume and tolerates poor soil.

Consideraciones:

Disponibilidad:

Native Nurseries, Specialty Provider, Seed

Propagación:

Seeds are available through the Florida Wildflowers Growers Cooperative.

Luz:

Full Sun

Tolerancia a la humedad:

Siempre inundado---------------------------------Extremadamente seco

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Not wet but not extremely dry -a- Very long very dry periods

Tolerancia a inundaciones por agua salada:

Unknown

Tolerancia a la niebla salina/suelo salado:

Some tolerance to salty wind but not direct salt spray

Suelo u otro sustrato:

Sand

pH del suelo:

Apto para cultivo en:

8A,8B,9A,9B,10A,10B

Las zonas del USDA se basan en la temperatura mínima extrema invernal anual promedio.

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Acreditado en:

Distribution
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Map coded by Melissa Fernandez-de Cespedes (Paynes Prairie Chapter)

Ecología

Fauna:

Pollinators, Butterflies, Caterpillars, Birds, Mammals

Larval host for cloudless sulfur ( Phoebis senna ), gray hairstreak ( Strymon melinus ), orange sulphur ( Colias eurytheme ), sleepy orange ( Abaeis nicippe ), little yellow ( Eurema lisa ) and ceraunus blue ( Hemiargus ceraunus ) butterflies.


Long-tongued bees are responsible for pollination of the flowers, which includes such visitors as honeybees, bumblebees, long-horned bees (Melissodes spp.), and leaf-cutting bees ( Megachile spp.). They are attracted to the food pollen of the purple anthers, and are then dusted by the reproductive pollen of the yellow anthers. Two species of bees, Anthophora walshii and Svastra atripes atripes , are oligoleges of Partridge Pea. Sometimes leaf-cutting bees cut off portions of the petals for their brood chambers. The flowers are usually cross-pollinated by insects, but sometimes they are self-pollinating. ( Illinois Wildflowers


Petiolar nectaries attract Halictid bees, wasps, flies, and ants). Unusual visitors to the nectaries are velvet ants ( Mutillidae ), which are hairy wingless femal wasps. ( Illinois Wildflowers ).





Bee species documented in Florida include  Azcgochlora pura, Augochloropsis inetallica, A. sumnptuosa, Dialictzcs coreopsis, D. miniatulus, Megachile brevis pseudobrevis, M mendica, Bolnbz~s impatiens , and Xylocopa micarzs (Deyrup et al. 2002) .





 

Birds and other wildlife consume seed which is reported to be particularly important for the bobwhite.

Hábitats nativos:

Scrub, high pine (sandhill, clayhill), dry flatwoods, dunes, open disturbed areas where seed is available.

Área de distribución natural en Florida:

Comentarios:

Etnobotánica:

Sometimes grown to attract bees (for honey).

Comentarios generales:

Sources disagree on the salt tolerance of this species.
FNPS Plant Print

Citas:

Haehle, Robert G. and Joan Brookwell. (1999). Native Florida Plants. Gulf Publishing Company. Houston, TX.


Hilty, John. (2002-2018). Prairie Wildflowers of Illinois: Partridge Pea. ( https://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/prairie/plantx/part_peax.htm. Accessed 2026.


Huegel, Craig N. (2009-2025). Native Florida Wildflowers (blog). ( http://hawthornhillwildflowers.blogspot.com/ ).


Huegel, Craig N. (2012). Native Wildflowers and Other Ground Covers for Florida Landscapes. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.


Minno, Marc and Maria Minno. (1999). Florida Butterfly Gardening: A Complete Guide to Attracting, Identifying, and Enjoying Butterflies. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.


Osorio, Rufino. (2001). A Gardener's Guide to Florida's Native Plants. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.


Traas, Pamela. (2001). Gardening for Florida's Butterflies. Great Outdoors Publishing Co., St. Petersburg, FL.

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