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How to Grow
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Characteristics
Bloom Time
Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug
Plant Type
Trees, Native Plant, Tree, Perennial, Not climbing
Lifespan
Woody, Perennial
Plant Height
72-100 ft.
Flower
Small greenish yellow 2 to 3 inch long, narrow, hanging, clustered flowers. Flowers have a sweet fragrance and bloom for about two weeks in summer.
Fruit
Female flowers are replaced by reddish-brown, twisted, flat bean pods 12 to 18 inches long containing oval seeds appear in the summer and can remain on the tree through the winter. Seed pods twist into corkscrew shapes and can be messy to maintain once they fall off the tree. The pods turn black when ripe and contain a sweet-tasting sticky substance that gives Honeylocust its common name., Brown
Benefits
Ornamental
Attractive, Shade tree
Attracts
Butterflies
Warning
Plant has thorns or prickles.
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Taxonomy
Order
Fabales
Family
Fabaceae
Genus
Gleditsia