Index / Search / Vachellia farnesiana
§1 Plant
Vachellia farnesiana (L.) Wight & Arn.
vernacular sweet acacia — species · Fabaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub, Tree
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Fabaceae Lindl.
- Genus
- Vachellia
§2a
Native status, by region
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- PB Pacific Basin (except Hawaii) Introduced
- PR Puerto Rico Native
- VI U.S. Virgin Islands Native
§2b
County-level range
· 116 counties across 8 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 116 counties across 8 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Arizona view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 19 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Hawaii view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 16 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 66 N ▾
- Aransas 48007
- Atascosa 48013
- Austin 48015
- Bandera 48019
- Bastrop 48021
- Bell 48027
- Bexar 48029
- Blanco 48031
- Brazoria 48039
- Brazos 48041
- Brewster 48043
- Burleson 48051
- Calhoun 48057
- Cameron 48061
- Chambers 48071
- Colorado 48089
- DeWitt 48123
- Dimmit 48127
- Duval 48131
- Fayette 48149
- Fort Bend 48157
- Galveston 48167
- Goliad 48175
- Gonzales 48177
- Grimes 48185
- Hardin 48199
- Harris 48201
- Hays 48209
- Hidalgo 48215
- Hopkins 48223
- Jackson 48239
- Jefferson 48245
- Jim Hogg 48247
- Jim Wells 48249
- Karnes 48255
- Kenedy 48261
- Kinney 48271
- Kleberg 48273
- La Salle 48283
- Lavaca 48285
- Live Oak 48297
- Maverick 48323
- McLennan 48309
- McMullen 48311
- Medina 48325
- Montgomery 48339
- Nueces 48355
- Pecos 48371
- Presidio 48377
- Real 48385
- Refugio 48391
- San Jacinto 48407
- San Patricio 48409
- Starr 48427
- Tarrant 48439
- Terrell 48443
- Travis 48453
- Val Verde 48465
- Victoria 48469
- Walker 48471
- Waller 48473
- Washington 48477
- Webb 48479
- Willacy 48489
- Zapata 48505
- Zavala 48507
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/VAFA ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2979265 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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