Privet Senna

Because it's a legume it can grow in poor soils, but does better with added organic matter.



Specimen shrub.

Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.



Moderate. Tolerant of salty wind and may get some salt spray. Exposure to salt spray would be uncommon (major storms).

Hammock edges, disturbed areas.

• Showy flowers
• Larval host plant for cloudless sulphur (Phoebis sennae), sleepy orange (Eurema nicippi) and the introduced orange-barred sulphur (Phoebis philea) butterflies.
• A gland at the base of the leaves attracts ants that attack the butterfly caterpillars (IRC, 2021)
• Sennas attract butterflies, solitary bees including sweat bees and bumble bees, as pollinators.