Sunn hemp
सनईশণ
Crotalaria juncea L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 1.8 m
- wide
- 23 cm
Fabaceae
Formerly Crotalaria benghalensis, Crotalaria cannabinua, Crotalaria fenestrata, Crotalaria kanchiana, and 2 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- AnnualKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Afghanistan to Indo-ChinaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 91 cm to 2.7 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 15 cm to 30 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- YellowRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
Not known yet: water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (5)
- Chinese
- 响铃草, 印度麻, 太阳麻根
- Vietnamese
- lục lạc sợi
- Simplified Chinese
- 印度麻, 太阳麻, 自消容
- Hindi
- सनई
- Bangla
- শণ, শনপাট
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Crotalaria juncea (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.