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Coues' Senna
Senna covesii
This small shrub can be used in a wild flower garden, a xeric garden or a rock garden. It is leafless most of the year (The stems are thornless, tan in color, and covered in fuzzy hair) and will give color to the garden during the summer. An important food source to catipillars, which helps in the spread of native butterflies.
- Plant type: Perennial
- Water requirement: Low
- Sun exposure: Full
- Height range: 1–2 Feet
- Width range: Feet
- Growth rate: Medium
- Seasonal habit: Semi-Evergreen
- Flower color: Yellow
- Flower season: Spring, Summer, Autumn
- Fruit color: Brown
- Fruit season: Summer, Autumn, Winter
- General foliage color: Grey, Green
- Soil preference: Sand, Clay, Rocky, Well Drained, Dry
- Native location: NV, AZ, CA, to Baja California: A very common native plant of dry disturbed soil found along roadsides and waste places; also on rocky slopes, mesas, sandy river bottoms, and washes in the deserts, and desert grassland ranges
- PH preference: Alkaline/Basic
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