8. Silver cassia

Senna artemisioides

NON-INDIGENOUS USE:

Revegetation in native parklands.

INDIGENOUS USE:

Ceremonial and medicinal use. Grubs found on the roots often used as a food source.

DESCRIPTION:

An attractive showy shrub up to 2m tall and 1.5m in width with erect slender stems. Quick growing but short lived.

LEAVES:

Silvery grey-green consisting of up to 10 pairs of leaflets.

FLOWERS:

Sweetly scented yellow 5 petalled flowers in late winter /spring. Grazed at times by sheep, unpalatable to cattle. Some regions it occurs as a woody weed problem.