Index / Search / Sesbania punicea
§1 Plant
Sesbania punicea (Cav.) Benth.
vernacular rattlebox — species · Fabaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb, Subshrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Fabaceae Lindl.
- Genus
- Sesbania
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 152 counties across 9 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 152 counties across 9 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 9 I ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Florida view state ↗ 39 I ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Baker 12003
- Bay 12005
- Bradford 12007
- Brevard 12009
- Charlotte 12015
- Citrus 12017
- Clay 12019
- Dixie 12029
- Duval 12031
- Escambia 12033
- Flagler 12035
- Franklin 12037
- Gadsden 12039
- Gulf 12045
- Hernando 12053
- Indian River 12061
- Jackson 12063
- Lake 12069
- Lee 12071
- Leon 12073
- Levy 12075
- Madison 12079
- Marion 12083
- Nassau 12089
- Okaloosa 12091
- Orange 12095
- Pasco 12101
- Pinellas 12103
- Polk 12105
- Putnam 12107
- Santa Rosa 12113
- Sarasota 12115
- Seminole 12117
- St. Johns 12109
- Sumter 12119
- Taylor 12123
- Union 12125
- Volusia 12127
Georgia view state ↗ 32 I ▾
- Atkinson 13003
- Bacon 13005
- Baker 13007
- Ben Hill 13017
- Berrien 13019
- Brantley 13025
- Bulloch 13031
- Charlton 13049
- Chatham 13051
- Clinch 13065
- Colquitt 13071
- Cook 13075
- Dougherty 13095
- Echols 13101
- Glynn 13127
- Houston 13153
- Irwin 13155
- Jackson 13157
- Jasper 13159
- Laurens 13175
- Lowndes 13185
- Madison 13195
- McIntosh 13191
- Muscogee 13215
- Peach 13225
- Richmond 13245
- Screven 13251
- Tattnall 13267
- Thomas 13275
- Troup 13285
- Wayne 13305
- Worth 13321
Louisiana view state ↗ 35 I ▾
- Allen 22003
- Assumption 22007
- Caddo 22017
- Calcasieu 22019
- Caldwell 22021
- Catahoula 22025
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- Evangeline 22039
- Franklin 22041
- Jackson 22049
- Jefferson 22051
- Jefferson Davis 22053
- Lafayette 22055
- LaSalle 22059
- Lincoln 22061
- Livingston 22063
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Plaquemines 22075
- Rapides 22079
- Red River 22081
- Richland 22083
- Sabine 22085
- St. Charles 22089
- St. Helena 22091
- St. John the Baptist 22095
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Terrebonne 22109
- Union 22111
- Vernon 22115
- West Carroll 22123
- Winn 22127
Mississippi view state ↗ 11 I ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 10 I ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 11 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/SEPU7 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2970728 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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