Sensitive Plant
ಮುಟ್ಟಿದರೆ ಮುನಿछुइमुइ पौधाதொட்டாற் சிணுங்கி
Mimosa pudica L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 30 cm
- wide
- 75 cm
Fabaceae
Also called Shame Plant, Sleepy Plant, Action Plant, Dormilones, Touch-me-not
Formerly Eburnax pudica
When it flowers
Flowers all year in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Annual, perennial or subshrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Mexico to Trop. AmericaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from RHS, one source
- Height
- 10 cm to 51 cmRead from RHS, one source
- Spread
- 51 cm to 99 cmRead from RHS, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from RHS, one source
- Flowers
- Pink, purpleRead from RHS, one source
Not known yet: coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- root
- choben, cochiz-xíhuitl, maba ujts
- Spanish
- Dormilona, Mimosa sensitiva, Doncella
- myn
- muts'il xiw
- French
- mimosa pudique, Sensitive, herbe mamzelle
- Chinese
- 含羞草, 見笑草, 含羞草根
- Portuguese
- Dormideira
- German
- Mimose
- Hungarian
- Szemérmes mimóza
- Finnish
- Tuntomimosa, Tuntokasvi
- Korean
- 미모사
- Kannada
- ಮುಟ್ಟಿದರೆ ಮುನಿ
- Dutch
- Kruidje-roer-mij-niet
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Mimosa pudica (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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