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Fabaceae
New mexico locust
Robinia neomexicana var. neomexicana var. neomexicana
Also known as Robinia subvelutina, Robinia neomexicana var. subvelutina, Robinia neomexicana, Robinia neomexicana var. albiflora
Flowering Plants · Native Plants · Trees & Shrubs · New Mexico Locust · Native Shrub · Xeriscape · Southwest Native · Nitrogen Fixer · Fabaceae · Pollinator Plant · Drought Adapted · Deciduous Shrub · Wildlife Habitat
New Mexico locust is a tough, fast-growing shrub or small tree ideal for xeric and native plant gardens in the American Southwest. Once established, it requires very little supplemental watering and thrives in poor, rocky, or sandy soils with full sun exposure. Its showy pink-lavender flowers attract pollinators in spring, and it naturally spreads by root suckering to form attractive thickets.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 6 hours
- Watering
- Water deeply but infrequently, allowing soil to dry out significantly between waterings · Every 10-14 days once established
- Maintenance
- Low
- Soil
- sandy loam
- Soil pH
- 7–8.5
- Temperature
- -40°F to 95°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
Hardiness
USDA 3a-9b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Mature height
- 3 ft – 10 ft
- Spread
- 6.7 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
Sources: trefle, usda
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