Wild Senna
Senna hebecarpa
Wild senna is the taller sibling of southern senna. it can reach 6–8 feet in rich, moist conditions, creating a substantial back-of-border presence with bold compound leaves and bright yellow flowers through midsummer. Like southern senna, it's a host plant for cloudless sulphur, orange sulphur, and sleepy orange butterflies, whose caterpillars feed exclusively on senna leaves. The clusters of yellow blooms are worked constantly by bumblebees buzzing to release pollen. It naturalizes in moist to wet areas along stream banks and woodland edges, spreading by seed to fill in over time. The large, persistent seed pods turn dark brown and stay on the stems through winter, adding structural interest when the garden is otherwise bare.
We grow a range of sizes and prices. Add the plant to your list, then pick your size when you visit.
Final price confirmed at pickup, depends on size and season.
- Thu, Jul 238 AM – 4 PM
- Fri, Jul 248 AM – 4 PM
- Sat, Jul 258 AM – 2 PM
A nursery-grown plant, ready for the ground.
Healthy, container-grown wild senna propagated on-site at Hill House from regional genetics. Includes a one-page care card. We make every effort to supply plants as listed; occasionally we substitute a similar species of equal value.
- Sun
- Full sun
- Water
- Average
- Mature size
- 5'–8'
- Bloom
- Bright yellow flowers from midsummer into late summer; large persistent seed pods through winter
- USDA zones
- 4–8
Pairs well with these.
Same light, same soil, same wildlife. Janet's picks to plant alongside wild senna.
Or skip the guesswork.
Curated packages bundle 9–12 species that work together. One reservation, one pickup day, a printed layout map.
Butterfly Package
Host and nectar plants chosen to feed monarchs, swallowtails, and fritillaries spring through fall.
Hummingbird Package
Tubular-flowered natives that pull ruby-throats through your yard April through October.
S.O.S. Package
Save Our Songbirds, berry- and seed-bearing natives that feed nesting and migrating birds.