(Submitted photo) Several years ago, while attending a native plant seminar, I was given a packet of partridge pea (Chamaecrista fasciculata) seeds by a vendor on display. At the time, I knew ...

Partridge pea plants are also larval hosts for moths and several butterflies. However, although these plants are basically very beneficial, their seeds should never be eaten by humans and they can ...

“So taking this step to safeguard the pine rockland where these incredibly rare plants live is really important.” Big Pine partridge pea: The Big Pine partridge pea is a small shrub with five-petal, ...

The plants that dominated in the first year — coreopsis, rudbeckia, partridge pea — have given way to bergamot, joe pye weed, ...