Coronilla emerus - Scorpion senna

Scorpion senna (Coronilla emerus) is a deciduous nitrogen-fixing shrub native to Mediterranean and central European scrub, grown for its sweetly scented flowers and soil-building ability.

Inputs

• Hardiness zone 5¹
• Hardiness zone 6¹
• Hardiness zone 7¹
• Hardiness zone 8¹
• Hardiness zone 9¹

Outputs

• Medicinal use¹

Type

• Shrub
• Deciduous²³

Functions

• Nitrogen fixer¹
• Attracting bees¹

Footnotes

1. Coronilla emerus | Plants for a Future ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸

2. Hippocrepis emerus | RHS ↩

3. Hippocrepis emerus | Trees and Shrubs Online (Bean’s) ↩