Desert cassia (Senna polyphylla) is the smaller of the three most popular Cassia trees grown in South Florida – it only reaches about 10 feet tall with spring and fall flowers.

This sweet little tree is salt-tolerant and evergreen, with tiny leaves and a fast-growing habit.

An ideal centerpiece for a butterfly garden, it’s the most cold-hardy of the bunch, tolerating temperatures in Zone 9B. It may drop some leaves if winter is harsh. It is the host plant to the Sulphur family of butterflies. Yellow flowers, yellow caterpillars, yellow butterflies.

This 3-gallon pot is already trained up as a tree.