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Sesbania herbacea (hemp sesbania; bigpod sesbania; peatree; Coffeeweed; Indigoweed)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Sesbania herbacea (syn. Sesbania exaltata) is a species of flowering plant in the legume family known by the common names bigpod sesbania, Colorado River-hemp, and coffeeweed. It is native to the United States, particularly the southeastern states, where it grows in moist habitat. It can be found elsewhere as an introduced species. It is a woody herb growing to 3 meters or more in height. The leaves are made up of many pairs of oblong leaflets. The inflorescence is a small raceme of pealike flowers with yellow or purple-spotted petals.
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Attributes

Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Hazards [1]  The seeds may be poisonous;
Lifespan [1]  Annual
Structure [2]  Herb
Usage [1]  A strong fibre obtained from the bark can be used for making nets etc; It was a very important fibre plant for the native North American Indians;
Height [1]  9.84 feet (3 m)
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Predators

Calidris himantopus (Stilt Sandpiper)[3]
Colias eurytheme (alfalfa caterpillar)[4]
Erynnis funeralis (funereal duskywing)[4]
Erynnis zarucco (Zarucco Duskywing)[4]

Citations

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1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
3del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0