Sept, 10...Latest Update and I think the winner: Randy Emmitt has come along yet again to let me know that "Sesbania Exaltata" is correct!
And guess what Tina, you were correct when you said it looked like Hemp to you!
The common name "IS" Hemp Sesbania. Click HERE to see the information on this difficult for me to ID plant....
Thanks to everyone for playing along with me on this plant, In The Garden...
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Update: I am on another lead folks! Ain't blogging Grand? The Rainforest Gardener, has put my attention on Sesbania Sericea being an invasive in Florida. After looking it up on the Internet, (Click Here to see) this may be my plant. At this point, I don't know what I have, I'M SOOOO CONFUSED!!!
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By Skeeter
Remember me talking about me having a possible Mimosa Tree in my Georgia Garden? (Click HERE to refresh your memory). I was out of my garden for a bit after that posting and returned to find some more to the mystery plant. Yellow buds.
The yellow buds open to form this tiny flower. The mystery is slowly solving itself to me. Randy Emmitt was the commenter that brought the Cassia Plant to my attention. Click HERE to view Randy and Megs Garden Paradise. Randy is very knowledgeable on butterflies thus he informs me the Cassia is host to the Cloudless Sulfur which I see in my garden often. As I went out to snap a pic today, I spotted 3 of them fluttering around my gardens. They were too busy to stop for me to capture a photo of them. Click HERE to see Randy's pictures of this beauty.
I have never heard of a Cassia before Randy mentioning it. The beauty of blogging is, learning something new every time I go to a blog. I do believe I have a Cassia in my Georgia Gardens! See how the leaves fold up in the evening hours? I find that interesting and wonder is this normal or due to our hot dry weather lately? 
Also look at the pea type pods they are producing. I have no idea which Cassia plant I have growing in the garden but everything I have read about them tells me that seeds within this pod are poisonous! Yikes...
I don't know if they are short lived or not but the leaves on this one are starting to turn yellow in color. This Cassia has only been in my garden for about a month so she sure does grow quickly. This plant is not harming anything to my knowledge so I think I will let her hang around a bit more and see what happens in the weeks to come...Thanks to Randy for enlightening my knowledge a bit on the Cassia. A MIMOSA TREE... NOT, In the Garden...
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