Partridge Pea 101: A Native Annual for Late-Season Flowers
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As late summer steps into the shorter days of fall, a native annual whose generous yellow flowers festoon its upright and feathered stems begins to show off. Touch those fine-cut, pinnately compound leaves and they fold up, sensitively. This is partridge pea, sensitive plant, sleeping plant—a legume that resembles a delicate shrub but whose lifespan is a growing season. Its seeds will ensure that it stays around the following year, and the next. That self-seeding habit makes partridge pea a help
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