Bristly locust

Bristly locust

Taxobox
name = Bristly Locust


image_width = 240px
image_caption = Bristly Locust in flower
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Fabales
familia = Fabaceae
subfamilia = Faboideae
tribus = Robinieae
genus = "Robinia"
species = "R. hispida"
binomial = "Robinia hispida"
binomial_authority = L.

Bristly Locust ("Robinia hispida") is a shrub or small tree in the subfamily Faboideae of the pea family Fabaceae, native to the southeastern United States. Other common names include Rose acacia and Rose locust.

It grows to 2-4 m tall, with densely glandular-bristly stems, somewhat sticky to touch. The leaves are 12-23 cm long, pinnate with 7-15 leaflets 2-5 cm long. The flowers are pink, produced on short racemes of 3-12 together in the spring; each flower is 20-25 mm (about 1 inch) across.


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