Index / Search / Prosopis glandulosa var. torreyana

§1 Plant

Prosopis glandulosa Torr. var. torreyana (L.D. Benson) M.C. Johnst.

vernacular western honey mesquite — variety · Fabaceae


USDA
PRGLT
GBIF
5358467
Rank
variety
western honey mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa var. torreyana)
Platephotograph · alisonbabbCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Shrub, Tree
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Fabaceae Lindl.
Genus
Prosopis
§2a

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 41 counties across 5 states/territories
Legend Native · 41 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§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 41 counties across 5 states/territories.


§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/PRGLT ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/5358467 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

fetched 2026-05-26T14:42:51Z