Buttercup Bush
Senna multiglandulosa (Jacq.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 4.0 m
- wide
- —
Fabaceae
Also called Glandular senna
Formerly Adipera tomentosa, Cassia albida, Cassia lutescens, Cassia multiglandulosa, and 1 more
When it flowers
Flowers August to February 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
- Shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Mexico, W. South AmericaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 4.0 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- YellowRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
Grow it with
Suggested by a rule, not by a gardener: same climate (kew), flowering when this plant does not (inaturalist), and a different shape.
Apple-of-PeruFlowers March to July, when this does not
Arabian jasmineFlowers March to July, when this does not
Barbados lilyFlowers March to July, when this does not
Billygoat weedFlowers March to July, when this does not
Black-eyed Susan vineFlowers March to July, when this does not
Blue dazeFlowers March to July, when this does not
In other languages (4)
- Spanish
- Retama, Alcaparrito, llin-llin
- Afrikaans
- wildesenna
- Russian
- Сенна многожелезистая
- Finnish
- nystysenna
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Senna multiglandulosa (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.