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Scientific classification
Synonyms
Synonyms Cassia acuminata Moench Cassia marilandica L. Cassia medsgeri Shafer Cassia reflexa Salisb. Cassia succedana Bellardi ex DC. Ditremexa marilandica (L.) Britton & Rose Ditremexa medsgeri (Shafer) Britton & Rose Ditremexa nashii Britton & Rose Senna riparia Raf.

Senna marilandica, the Maryland senna or Maryland wild senna, is a perennial flowering plant in the United States that blooms in the summer and can grow up to six feet tall. It prefers average to wet soil, and is native in the southeast, all the way to the southern Great Lakes.

It is a larval host to the cloudless sulphur (Phoebis sennae), orange-barred sulphur (Phoebis philea), and sleepy orange (Eurema nicippe) butterflies.

Flowers showing black stamens and relatively hairless pistils
Senna marilandica on the banks of the Cacapon River

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