Partridge Pea
50 Seeds
Often grown as an ornamental, Partridge pea is a beautiful native plant that produces a showy display of yellow pendulate flowers. Besides its beauty, the partridge pea offers a number of benefits. It fixes nitrogen, thus enriching the soil while providing erosion control. It serves as an important nectar source for bees and a host plant for sulfur butterflies. And finally, its seeds are an important food source for quail (particularly the northern bobwhite), greater and lesser prairie chicken, mallard, ring-necked pheasant, and other grassland birds. Blooms late summer. Each packet contains a minimum of 50 seeds.
Often grown as an ornamental, Partridge pea is a beautiful native plant that produces a showy display of yellow pendulate flowers. Besides its beauty, the partridge pea offers a number of benefits. It fixes nitrogen, thus enriching the soil while providing erosion control. It serves as an important nectar source for bees and a host plant for sulfur butterflies. And finally, its seeds are an important food source for quail (particularly the northern bobwhite), greater and lesser prairie chicken, mallard, ring-necked pheasant, and other grassland birds. Blooms late summer. Each packet contains a minimum of 50 seeds.
