Index / Search / Prosopis glandulosa
§1 Plant
Prosopis glandulosa Torr.
vernacular honey mesquite — species · Fabaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub, Tree
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Fabaceae Lindl.
- Genus
- Prosopis
§2a
Native status, by region
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- VI U.S. Virgin Islands Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 217 counties across 9 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 217 counties across 9 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Nevada view state ↗ 3 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 25 N ▾
- Bernalillo 35001
- Catron 35003
- Chaves 35005
- Colfax 35007
- Curry 35009
- De Baca 35011
- Dona Ana 35013
- Eddy 35015
- Grant 35017
- Guadalupe 35019
- Harding 35021
- Hidalgo 35023
- Lea 35025
- Lincoln 35027
- Luna 35029
- Otero 35035
- Quay 35037
- Roosevelt 35041
- San Miguel 35047
- Sandoval 35043
- Santa Fe 35049
- Sierra 35051
- Socorro 35053
- Torrance 35057
- Valencia 35061
Oklahoma view state ↗ 26 N ▾
- Alfalfa 40003
- Beckham 40009
- Blaine 40011
- Bryan 40013
- Cimarron 40025
- Cleveland 40027
- Coal 40029
- Comanche 40031
- Cotton 40033
- Ellis 40045
- Greer 40055
- Harmon 40057
- Jackson 40065
- Kingfisher 40073
- Kiowa 40075
- Major 40093
- Marshall 40095
- Noble 40103
- Osage 40113
- Payne 40119
- Pittsburg 40121
- Roger Mills 40129
- Stephens 40137
- Tillman 40141
- Tulsa 40143
- Woods 40151
Texas view state ↗ 139 N ▾
- Aransas 48007
- Archer 48009
- Armstrong 48011
- Atascosa 48013
- Bailey 48017
- Bandera 48019
- Bastrop 48021
- Bee 48025
- Bell 48027
- Bexar 48029
- Blanco 48031
- Brazos 48041
- Brewster 48043
- Briscoe 48045
- Brooks 48047
- Brown 48049
- Burleson 48051
- Caldwell 48055
- Calhoun 48057
- Cameron 48061
- Carson 48065
- Chambers 48071
- Childress 48075
- Clay 48077
- Coleman 48083
- Collin 48085
- Comal 48091
- Comanche 48093
- Coryell 48099
- Cottle 48101
- Crane 48103
- Crockett 48105
- Crosby 48107
- Culberson 48109
- Dallas 48113
- Deaf Smith 48117
- Denton 48121
- DeWitt 48123
- Dickens 48125
- Dimmit 48127
- Donley 48129
- Duval 48131
- Edwards 48137
- El Paso 48141
- Ellis 48139
- Fayette 48149
- Floyd 48153
- Foard 48155
- Frio 48163
- Gaines 48165
- Galveston 48167
- Garza 48169
- Gillespie 48171
- Goliad 48175
- Gray 48179
- Grayson 48181
- Guadalupe 48187
- Hall 48191
- Hardeman 48197
- Hartley 48205
- Hays 48209
- Hidalgo 48215
- Hockley 48219
- Houston 48225
- Howard 48227
- Hudspeth 48229
- Hutchinson 48233
- Jackson 48239
- Jeff Davis 48243
- Jim Hogg 48247
- Jim Wells 48249
- Jones 48253
- Karnes 48255
- Kendall 48259
- Kenedy 48261
- Kerr 48265
- Kimble 48267
- King 48269
- Kinney 48271
- Kleberg 48273
- La Salle 48283
- Lamb 48279
- Lampasas 48281
- Lavaca 48285
- Live Oak 48297
- Loving 48301
- Lubbock 48303
- Madison 48313
- Marion 48315
- Martin 48317
- Maverick 48323
- McLennan 48309
- McMullen 48311
- Medina 48325
- Mills 48333
- Mitchell 48335
- Motley 48345
- Nueces 48355
- Oldham 48359
- Parker 48367
- Pecos 48371
- Potter 48375
- Presidio 48377
- Randall 48381
- Reagan 48383
- Real 48385
- Reeves 48389
- Refugio 48391
- Roberts 48393
- Robertson 48395
- Runnels 48399
- San Jacinto 48407
- San Patricio 48409
- San Saba 48411
- Schleicher 48413
- Scurry 48415
- Shackelford 48417
- Starr 48427
- Sutton 48435
- Swisher 48437
- Tarrant 48439
- Taylor 48441
- Terrell 48443
- Terry 48445
- Tom Green 48451
- Travis 48453
- Uvalde 48463
- Val Verde 48465
- Victoria 48469
- Walker 48471
- Ward 48475
- Webb 48479
- Wichita 48485
- Willacy 48489
- Wilson 48493
- Winkler 48495
- Young 48503
- Zapata 48505
- Zavala 48507
Utah view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/PRGL2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5358457 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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