General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Tree
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Dry Mesic
Dry
Soil pH Preferences: Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5)
Neutral (6.6 – 7.3)
Slightly alkaline (7.4 – 7.8)
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 3 -40 °C (-40 °F) to -37.2 °C (-35)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 7b
Plant Height: 30 to 40 feet
Leaves: Deciduous
Fruit: Other: 2 to 4 inch pods covered in sticky, glandular hairs.
Fruiting Time: Late summer or early fall
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Flower Color: Pink
Bloom Size: 1"-2"
Flower Time: Spring
Suitable Locations: Street Tree
Uses: Flowering Tree
Dynamic Accumulator: Nitrogen fixer
Resistances: Deer Resistant
Pollution
Drought tolerant
Pollinators: Various insects
Miscellaneous: Tolerates poor soil
Monoecious

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Common names
  • Clammy Locust

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Location: Moldova
Date: 05/25/2019
photo by Radu Chibzii via Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/r
Location: Highlands, North Carolina
Date: 08/01/2003
photo by Matt Lavin via Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/pla

Date: c. 1865
illustration by Bessa from Michaux's 'The North American Sylva',

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