Indicator value
Creeping cassia is a decreaser species and its presence indicates good pasture condition.
Forage value
Creeping cassia is eaten by livestock after more-palatable plants have dried off. It does not persist well during dry periods, but quickly produces forage after rain.
Habitat
Clay soil types in wet areas.
General description
Creeping cassia is a low, spreading shrub up to 40cm high and 60cm wide. The leaves consist of 2–4 pairs of almost triangular leaflets, each up to 2cm long with indented tips. It flowers in response to rain. The yellow flowers are 2cm wide and are held in bunches of about 6 on a stalk up to 6cm long. Numerous flattened, black seeds, up to 6mm long by 3mm wide, are borne in flat, brown pods up to 6cm long by 12mm wide.