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Sesbania punicea (Cavanilles) Bentham — Rattlebox

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{Sesbania punicea}
Flowers

 {Sesbania punicea}
Flowers

{Sesbania punicea}
Flowers

 {Sesbania punicea}
Fruit

Habitat:

Ditches, wet fields, marshes, ponded wetlands, wet pinelands; presumably native of South America.

Habitat information from:
Weakley, Alan S., Flora of the Southern and Mid-Atlantic States, Working Draft of 21 May 2015.


Distribution

The range of Sesbania punicea

Kartesz, J.T., The Biota of North America Program (BONAP). 2015. North American Plant Atlas. (http://bonap.net/napa). Chapel Hill, N.C. [maps generated from Kartesz, J.T. 2015. Floristic Synthesis of North America, Version 1.0. Biota of North America Program (BONAP). (in press)].




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