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§1 Plant
Prosopis glandulosa Torr. var. glandulosa
vernacular honey mesquite — variety · 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
· 60 counties across 6 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- High
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Low
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- Low
- Anaerobic
- Low
- CaCO₃
- High
- Hedging
- High
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -13 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 250 min.
- Precipitation
- 5–12 in/yr
- pH range
- 7–8.5
- Root depth
- 12 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Multiple Stem
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Long
- Mature height
- 50 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 20 ft
- Foliage texture
- Fine
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Fruit colour
- White
- Fire resistant
- Yes
- N fixation
- Low
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Early Spring
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Moderate
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 10,800
- Propagation
- seed, cuttings, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Field Collections Only
- Nursery stock
- Yes
- Browse palatability
- Medium
- Graze palatability
- High
- Palatable, human
- Yes
- Protein potential
- Medium
- Lumber
- Yes
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 60 counties across 6 states/territories.
Colorado view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 3 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 18 N ▾
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
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/PRGLG ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/7068117 ↗Record version
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