Senna multiglandulosa

Glandular cassia

Family: Fabaceae · Type: shrub · Not Native

Glandular cassia is a naturalized shrub found in the central California Coast and San Francisco Bay bioregions in disturbed areas at elevations below 500 meters. Flowering from May to June, this plant produces yellow flowers with petals 12 to 19 millimeters long arranged in axillary racemes with 5 to 15 blooms. Growing as a small, leafy shrub with dense hair coverage, it reaches heights typical of a compact shrub or small tree. Its compound leaves feature 12 to 16 opposite leaflets, each 25 to 45 millimeters long, with oblong to narrowly elliptic shapes and noticeably denser hair on the undersides. The plant produces distinctive elongated fruits 8 to 12 centimeters long that are slightly inflated and oblong in shape.

Habitat: Disturbed areas

Bloom period: May-Jun

Elevation: < 500 m

Bioregions: CCo, SnFrB

California counties: Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Marin, San Luis Obispo, San Diego, Santa Clara, Orange

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.