| Family | Scientific Name | Common Name | Habitat | Distribution | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fabaceae | Senna alata | Emperor's Candlesticks, Candlestick Senna, Ringworm Senna | Disturbed areas. | Native of tropical America. Planted and slightly naturalized from s. Alabama and Florida west to Oklahoma and Texas. | ![]() (c) Bradley, Keith |
| Fabaceae | Senna angustisiliqua | Disturbed areas. | Native of Hispaniola. | ||
| Fabaceae | Senna atomaria | Flor de San José | Disturbed areas. | Native of tropical America. | |
| Fabaceae | Senna bauhinioides | Twinleaf Senna | Scrub, roadsides, disturbed areas; eastwards as a waif on ore piles. | S. Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona south to n. Mexico. | |
| Fabaceae | Senna chapmanii | Bahama Senna, Chapman’s Senna | Pine rocklands, rockland hammocks, dunes. | S. peninsular Florida; Bahamas; Cuba. | ![]() (c) Bradley, Keith |
| Fabaceae | Senna corymbosa | Argentine Senna | Cultivated as an ornamental, rarely persistent or spreading to disturbed areas. | Native of South America. Reported for Alabama (Diamond & Woods 2009). | ![]() (c) Diamond, Alvin - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Fabaceae | Senna didymobotrya | African Senna, Popcorn Senna, Candelabra-tree, Peanut Butter Cassia | Disturbed areas, from horticultural cultivation. | Native of Africa. | |
| Fabaceae | Senna durangensis var. iselyi | Isely's Senna | Mesquital. | S. Texas and nearby Mexico (San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas). | ![]() (c) Hill, Sonnia |
| Fabaceae | Senna hebecarpa | Northern Wild Senna | Open wet habitats, moist forests. | Massachusetts and s. New Hampshire west to s. Wisconsin, south to sc. North Carolina, e. Tennessee, s. Indiana, and c. Illinois. | ![]() (c) Bradley, Keith |
| Fabaceae | Senna italica | Port Royal Senna | Waif on ore piles. | Native of tropical Asia and Africa. | |
| Fabaceae | Senna ligustrina | Privet Wild Senna | Hardwood hammocks, wet disturbed habitats. | N. peninsular Florida south to s. Florida; Central America (Panama); West Indies. | ![]() (c) Bradley, Keith |
| Fabaceae | Senna lindheimeriana | Lindheimer's Senna, Pata de Buey, Velvetleaf Senna | Stony hillsides, washes, chaparral. | Se., s.c, and w. Texas, New Mexico, AX south to c. Mexico. | |
| Fabaceae | Senna marilandica | Maryland Wild Senna | Dry to moist forests, especially on greenstone and diabase barrens and rocky woodlands, thickets, woodland borders, sometimes somewhat weedy. | S. Massachusetts and s. New York west to e. Nebraska, south to Panhandle Florida and c. Texas. | ![]() (c) Ware, Richard & Teresa - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Fabaceae | Senna obtusifolia | Sicklepod, Coffeeweed | Fields (especially soybean fields), disturbed areas. | Probably native of the New World Tropics, though collected in our region as early as the 1800s; mapped as "uncertain nativity" for most of our region, but non-native and adventive northwards. The species is now pantropical. | ![]() (c) Ware, Richard & Teresa - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Fabaceae | Senna occidentalis | Coffee Senna | Disturbed places. | Native of the Old World Tropics. The species is now pantropical. | ![]() (c) Corder, Brandon |
| Fabaceae | Senna pendula var. advena | Disturbed areas. | Native of the West Indies, Central America, and n. South America. | ||
| Fabaceae | Senna pendula var. glabrata | Valamuerto | Disturbed areas. | Native of South America (mainly Brazil). | ![]() © Bruce Sorrie |
| Fabaceae | Senna pumilio | Pygmy Senna, Dwarf Senna | Rocky limestone soils. | Nc. and w. Texas south through c. and s. Texas to Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo León). | ![]() (c) Hill, Sonnia |
| Fabaceae | Senna roemeriana | Two-leaf Senna | Limestone outcrops. | Oklahoma and New Mexico south through Texas to Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León). | ![]() (c) Hill, Sonnia |
| Fabaceae | Senna septemtrionalis | Disturbed areas. | Native of the tropics, probably originally from tropical America, perhaps not truly established, though Isely (1990) states that "the weedy nature of this species suggests that it is almost certainly somewhat established." | ![]() (c) Hannan-Jones, Martin - CC-BY | |
| Fabaceae | Senna siamea | Kassodtree | Cultivated and possibly establishing. | Native of se. Asia. | |
| Fabaceae | Senna species 1 | Nash’s Coffee Senna | Swamps. | Apparently endemic to c. peninsular Florida. | |
| Fabaceae | Senna spectabilis var. spectabilis | Whitebark Cassia, Spectacular Senna | Cultivated, perhaps persistent in suburban and urban areas. | Native of tropical America. | |
| Fabaceae | Senna surattensis | Glossy Shower, Glaucous Senna | Disturbed areas, hammocks, swamps, coastal strands. | Native of se. Asia and n. Australia. | ![]() (c) Bradley, Keith |













