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Fabaceae
New mexico locust
Robinia neomexicana
Also known as New Mexico rose acacia, Southwestern locust, Desert locust
Flowering Plants · Native Plants · Trees & Shrubs · Native Shrub · Flowering Tree · Pollinator · Xeriscape · Southwest · Thorny · Fast Growing · Nitrogen Fixing · Pink Flowers · Deciduous
New Mexico Locust is a tough, fast-growing shrub or small tree that thrives in full sun to part shade and tolerates poor, rocky soils. Water deeply but infrequently once established, as it is quite adaptable to dry conditions in western landscapes. It produces beautiful fragrant pink flowers in spring that attract pollinators and hummingbirds.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 6 hours
- Watering
- Deep water occasionally; allow soil to dry between waterings · Every 10-14 days once established
- Maintenance
- Low
- Soil
- loam
- Soil pH
- 7–8.5
- Temperature
- -25°F to 95°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
- Propagation
- Seed, Division, Cutting
Hardiness
USDA 4b-9b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Mature height
- 12 in – 4 ft
- Spread
- 4 ft
- Spacing
- 120 in apart
- Growth rate
- Fast
- Root depth
- Medium
- Flowers
- Yes
- Foliage
- Fine
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Arizona, Baltic States, Central European Rus, Colorado, Kazakhstan, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, New Mexico, North Caucasus, Primorye, South European Russi, Texas, Transcaucasus, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Utah, Uzbekistan, Wyoming
- Attracts
- Bees, Butterflies, Hummingbirds, Birds
Sources: trefle, usda
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