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They planted butterfly milkweed, prairie blazing star, stiff goldenrod, sneezeweed, black-eyed Susan and partridge pea, all without tilling the land.

As construction approached, I said goodbye to what would be lost: sweeps of meadow beauty, partridge pea and blue-eyed grass.

Bumblebees, buzzing about the blossoms, may be observed "milking" the anthers just as they do those of the partridge pea.

The partridge pea, which has a more westerly range than the sensitive pea's, extends it southward even to Bolivia.

The partridge pea bears from two to four showy flowers together, each measuring an inch or more across, on a slender pedicel from the axils.