Honeylocust
Scientific Name:Gleditsia triacanthos
Common Name Synonyms: Thorny Locust


NOTES: Long, branched thorns on trunk. Polygamo-dioecious: mostly dioecious (male and female flowers on separate plants) but with either a few flowers of the opposite sex or a few bisexual flowers on the same plant.

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Honeylocust
Genus species: Gleditsia triacanthos
Common Names: Honeylocust
Thorny Locust
Family Name: Fabaceae  
Herbaceous or woody plants; leaves alternate or basal, simple or compound, stipulate, the petiole and petiolule base typically swollen; flowers bisexual, mostly irregular, in various clusters; fruit a legume.
Seed Type: Angiosperm
Origin:  
Native: native to North America.
Non-native: not native to North America.
Introduced Native: native to North
America, but not Rowe Woods.
* Definitions based on the USDA
terminology
Native
Category:Tree
Flower Color:Yellow
Green/Brown
CNC Habitat: Krippendorf Arboretum
Identified by:A. Swanson

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