Black Locust; Yellow Locust; Locust Scientific Name: Robina pseudoacacia
Description: Medium-sized, spiny tree with a forking, often crooked, and angled trunk and irregular, open crown of upright branches; introduced. Height: 40-80'. Diameter: 1-2'
Habitat: Moist to dry sandy and rocky soils, especially in old fields and other open areas, and in woodlands.
Range: Central Penn. and S. Ohio south to NE> Alabama and from S. Missouri to E. Oklahoma. Naturalized from Maine to California and in S. Canada.
Type: Tree Source:National Audubon Society, Field Guide to North American Trees: Western Region
Photograph: Gil Wojciech, Polish Forest Research Institute, Poland from www.forestryimages.org. |
