Hemp Sesbania

Hemp Sesbania

Sesbania herbacea (P. Mill.) McVaugh
(formerly Sesbania exaltata)

Fabaceae (Legume Family, Bean Family)

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Bob with mature, flowering plants ▲

mature flowering plants ▲

plant stem with flowers, fruit pods ▲

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fruit pod ▲

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senescing plant with many fruit pods ▲

Hemp Sesbania:

annual weed with medium green, pinnately compound leaves with 20-70 small oval leaflets
stems green, with some ridges toward the top--terminal leaf canopy turns to face sun, creating windmill-like appearance; grows 3-10’ tall
flowers yellow-orange in axils of leaves followed by long, jointed, 4-sided pods and orange-green-brown seeds inside
found in wet soils, disturbed sites--common cropland weed in southeast Missouri