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§1 Plant
Gleditsia aquatica Marshall
vernacular water locust — species · Fabaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub, Tree
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Fabaceae Lindl.
- Genus
- Gleditsia
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 175 counties across 12 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- None
- Shade
- Medium
- Fire
- Low
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- Low
- CaCO₃
- Low
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- 27 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 207 min.
- Precipitation
- 16–68 in/yr
- pH range
- 6–8
- Root depth
- 36 in min.
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Stem
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Long
- Mature height
- 40 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 60 ft
- Foliage texture
- Fine
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Green
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- Low
- Toxicity
- Slight
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Mid Summer
- Seed abundance
- Low
- Seed begins
- Fall
- Seed ends
- Winter
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 3,000
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Nursery stock
- Yes
- Browse palatability
- Medium
- Graze palatability
- Medium
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- High
- Lumber
- Yes
- Fuelwood
- Low
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 175 counties across 12 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 35 N ▾
- Arkansas 05001
- Ashley 05003
- Bradley 05011
- Chicot 05017
- Clark 05019
- Clay 05021
- Columbia 05027
- Craighead 05031
- Crittenden 05035
- Cross 05037
- Desha 05041
- Drew 05043
- Grant 05053
- Greene 05055
- Hempstead 05057
- Jefferson 05069
- Lafayette 05073
- Lawrence 05075
- Lee 05077
- Lincoln 05079
- Little River 05081
- Lonoke 05085
- Miller 05091
- Mississippi 05093
- Monroe 05095
- Nevada 05099
- Ouachita 05103
- Phillips 05107
- Poinsett 05111
- Prairie 05117
- Pulaski 05119
- St. Francis 05123
- Union 05139
- Washington 05143
- Woodruff 05147
Florida view state ↗ 30 N ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Brevard 12009
- Calhoun 12013
- DeSoto 12027
- Dixie 12029
- Escambia 12033
- Franklin 12037
- Gadsden 12039
- Gilchrist 12041
- Gulf 12045
- Jackson 12063
- Jefferson 12065
- Lafayette 12067
- Lake 12069
- Leon 12073
- Levy 12075
- Liberty 12077
- Nassau 12089
- Okaloosa 12091
- Orange 12095
- Polk 12105
- Putnam 12107
- Sarasota 12115
- Seminole 12117
- St. Johns 12109
- Suwannee 12121
- Taylor 12123
- Volusia 12127
- Wakulla 12129
- Washington 12133
Georgia view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 18 N ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 43 N ▾
- Ascension 22005
- Bienville 22013
- Bossier 22015
- Caddo 22017
- Calcasieu 22019
- Caldwell 22021
- Catahoula 22025
- Claiborne 22027
- Concordia 22029
- De Soto 22031
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- East Carroll 22035
- Evangeline 22039
- Franklin 22041
- Grant 22043
- Iberville 22047
- Jackson 22049
- Jefferson 22051
- Lafayette 22055
- LaSalle 22059
- Livingston 22063
- Madison 22065
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Ouachita 22073
- Pointe Coupee 22077
- Rapides 22079
- Red River 22081
- Richland 22083
- Sabine 22085
- St. Charles 22089
- St. John the Baptist 22095
- St. Landry 22097
- St. Martin 22099
- St. Mary 22101
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tensas 22107
- Terrebonne 22109
- Union 22111
- Vernon 22115
- West Carroll 22123
- West Feliciana 22125
- Winn 22127
Mississippi view state ↗ 9 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 1 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 5 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/GLAQ ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2959492 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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