Bigpod Sesbania
Sesbania herbacea
(S. exaltata)
Growing in shallow water along the Salt River in Phoenix, Maricopa Co., Arizona, USA. Oct. 2009.
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ANNUAL: Tall herbaceous annual growing at edges of marshes and
slow-moving rivers often rooted in submerged soil and reaching a hight of
2 m or more.
FRUIT:The bean pods are very long and slender. Many small dark beans within
about the size of a rice grain. Often grows as a weed in rice fields and the
seeds can occasionally be found in sacks of processed rice.
FLOWERS: Small, yellow pea-flowers with some orangish blotches.
RANGE: In the Arizona Sonoran Desert this plant occurs along major
rivers in calmer backwater/edges. Found across the southern tier of the United
States into tropical America.
LEAVES: Long, pinnately compound leaves with numerous leaflets.
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