Honey Locust

Growth habit

Tree

Perennation

Long-lived polycarpic perennial

Native distribution

Not Native to the Finger Lakes Region, Central and E North America

Location

Mundy Wildflower Garden, Coy Glen, Edwards Lake Cliffs Preserve, South Hill Swamp

Source of plant

Unknown

Description

To 45m. Trunk and branches armed with stout, sharp, simple or branched, flat thorns. Leaves to 20cm, bipinnate leaves 4-16 pairs pinnae, pinnate leaves 14-32 foliate; leaflets to 4 x 1.5cm, oblong-lanceolate, mostly rounded at the apex, sparsely crenulate, bright green, initially downy, glabrous at maturity, pinnately nerved. Flowers 3mm, green, on downy racemes to 7cm, staminate flowers preponderant, crowded, very shortly stalked, fertile flowers spaced with stalks to 8cm. Fruit to 45 x 4cm, flat, falcate, twisted, dark shining brown, not punctate; seeds 9x5mm, many. Summer.

USDA Hardiness Zone

3

Status

L3|SNR|G5