Sesbania herbacea(Mill.) McVaugh

bigpod sesbania

WFO wfo-0000179858 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Sesbania herbacea, photographed by Jay Pruett
fig. a Jay Pruett, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-10-12 / obs. 163317832
Sesbania herbacea, photographed by Ryan Watson
fig. b Ryan Watson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 162732823
Sesbania herbacea, photographed by Tom Field
fig. c Tom Field, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 169048996
Sesbania herbacea, photographed by saltyhiker
fig. d saltyhiker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 166347124
Sesbania herbacea, photographed by Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）
fig. e Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 162181199
Sesbania herbacea, photographed by saltyhiker
fig. f saltyhiker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204859478
Sesbania herbacea, photographed by Clay
fig. g Clay, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 157997834
Sesbania herbacea, photographed by Annika Lindqvist
fig. h Annika Lindqvist, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 161755385

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Flowering n = 397 observations

Peak flowering in Sep, from 397 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 18 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Aeschynomene cassioides Ruiz & Pav. ex G.Don
  • Aeschynomene emerus Aubl.
  • Coronilla occidentalis Willd.
  • Cytisus tetragonus Sessé & Moc.
  • Darwinia exaltata Raf.
  • Emerus herbacea Mill.
  • Emerus herbaceus Mill.
  • Emerus sesban var. occidentalis (Willd.) Kuntze
  • Sesban exaltatus (Raf.) Rydb.
  • Sesbania cassioides G.Don
  • Sesbania emerus (Aubl.) Urb.
  • Sesbania exaltata (Raf.) Rydb.
  • Sesbania macrocarpa var. picta S.Watson
  • Sesbania occidentalis (Willd.) Poir.
  • Sesbania occidentalis var. multijuga Griseb.
  • Sesbania occidentalis var. pubescens Griseb.
  • Sesbania picta Lindl. ex Griseb.
  • Sesbania sonorae Rydb.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.