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Leaves Leslie Landrum @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) | Flowers Max Licher @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) | Fruit Max Licher @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) | | | |
Origin: Native Similar Species: Prosopis velutina
General Description: Deciduous. A large shrub or small flowering tree with an irregularly rounded crown and drooping branches. Sprouting from lateral roots is common; may form dense thickets. Twigs have sharp thorns up to 2 inches long.
Identification notes: Thorny shrub or small tree, 1 to several trunks, crooked arched branches. Leaves smooth, bipinnately compound, 2 to 4 sets of primary leaves; 8 to 20 pairs of leaflets each. Flowers greenish or yellow in axils. Long flat pods constricted between seeds.
Height: 20 feet Width: 20 feet
Habitat Description: Common in bottomlands and washes, on heavy soils in uplands and coarse soils of sandy flats.
Plant Communities: Desert Scrub, Interior Chaparral, Semidesert Grasslands, Riparian, Disturbed Areas
Elevation: 0 - 5000 feet
Color: Greenish-yellow Shape: Regular in elongated clusters
Tubular: Y Flowering Period: Mar - Aug
Description: Small, fragrant, greenish-yellow flowers are borne in elongated narrow clusters to 3 inches long. Calyx has a shallow, cup-like shape. Each 5 petaled flower has 10 protruding stamens.
Leaf Color: Green Type: Compound Shape: Narrow Margin: Smooth Attachment: Alternate Hairs: N
Description: Leaves are bipinnately compound on short stalks. Usually 2 but occasionally 4 sets of primary leaves; each set is composed of 8 to 20 linear to oblong leaflets, each 7 to 12 times as long as wide. Leaves are hairless.
Color: Yellowish-brown Type: Pod Description: Spiraled or straight bean-like pods are to 8 inches long. Straight pods are somewhat flattened, 2 to 6 inches long and have slight constrictions between the seeds.
Bark Color: Grayish-brown Bark Texture (Mature): Rough Bark and Branch Description: Older bark is grayish-brown while newer bark is reddish-brown. Single trunks may grow to1 foot in diameter. Thorns may be 1 to 2 inches long and generally occur singly on young branches.
Spines, thorns or prickles: Y |
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