New Mexican locust
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| Robinia neomexicana A.Gray |
New Mexican Locust or New Mexico Locust (Robinia neomexicana) is a shrub or small tree in the subfamily Faboideae of the pea family Fabaceae, native to the southwest United States (southeast California and southernmost Utah east through Arizona and New Mexico to west Texas) and adjoining northern Mexico.
It grows to 5-10 m tall (rarely to 15 m) with bristly shoots. The leaves are 10-15 cm long, pinnate with 7-15 leaflets. The flowers are pink, produced in dense racemes 5-10 cm long in spring.
