Sesbania vesicaria(Jacq.) Elliott

Bladder Pod

WFO wfo-0000166309 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Sesbania vesicaria, photographed by Judy Gallagher
fig. a Judy Gallagher, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-12-10 / obs. 171984584
Sesbania vesicaria, photographed by Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）
fig. b Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190243232
Sesbania vesicaria, photographed by Nonbinary-Naturalist
fig. c Nonbinary-Naturalist, CC0 1.0 / obs. 172423588
Sesbania vesicaria, photographed by Mark Apgar
fig. d Mark Apgar, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 168730225
Sesbania vesicaria, photographed by Thomas Koffel
fig. e Thomas Koffel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 167054553
Sesbania vesicaria, photographed by saltyhiker
fig. f saltyhiker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 162988671
Sesbania vesicaria, photographed by Thomas Koffel
fig. g Thomas Koffel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 167054630
Sesbania vesicaria, photographed by Thomas Koffel
fig. h Thomas Koffel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 167054591

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Flowering n = 191 observations

Peak flowering in Sep, from 191 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 16 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 platycarpa Michx.
  • Colutea floribunda Poir.
  • Dalbergia polyphylla Poir.
  • Emerus vesicarius (Jacq.) Kuntze
  • Glottidium floridanum (Willd.) Desv.
  • Glottidium floridanum DC.
  • Glottidium floridanum var. atrorubrum Nash
  • Glottidium vesicarium (Jacq.) R.M.Harper
  • Glottidium vesicarium var. atrorubrum (Nash) Small
  • Glottidium vesicarium var. sericeum R.W.S.Cocks
  • Phaca floridana Willd.
  • Robinia vesicaria Jacq.
  • Sesbania disperma Pursh
  • Sesbania macrocarpa Muhl. ex Raf.
  • Sesbania platycarpa (Michx.) Pers.
  • Sesbania vesicaria var. atrorubra (Nash) S.C.Brooks

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.