Yellow Sensitive Plant is a cousin of the
Sensitive Water Plant, but grows on land.
It is a perennial, prostrate, hairless herb, woody at base. Stems are slender,
compressed, angled; leaves 2-6 cm long, abruptly 2-pinnate; sidestalks 1-3 pairs, 5 cm long, leaflets 10-20 pairs; stalkless, elliptic-oblong, 3-5 x 1-2 mm, hairless, fringed with hairs, rounded, base oblique. Flowers are yellow in solitary, axillary small heads. Pods are 1-2 cm, flat, beaked, oblong, compressed.
Yellow Sensitive Plant is occasional among grasses. Yellow Sensitive Plant is
found in Peninsular India. Flowering: May-November.