Plant List 3 - Aggie Horticulture - Texas A&M University

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Acacia greggii Catclaw Acacia • Small tree / large shrub, 20’ - 30’ tall, hardy z.7 - 10 • Creamy white flowers, numerous vicious thorns • Acacias can be limbed up or sheared sheared, barrier plants Prosopis glandulosa Honey Mesquite • Irregular spreading deciduous rounded crown • One of most widely distributed trees in Texas • Several desirable ornamental features; – Ferny fine textured foliage, filtered shade, fruit and flowers can be attractive, adapted to almost any site • Small, 15 15’ - 20’, 20 20’, , deciduous deciduous or semi semi-evergreen evergreen tree • South Texas tree naturalized further north • Several interesting features; bright green trunk, fine textured leaf, filtered shade, yellow flowers • Relatively short-lived, short lived, cold hardy only to z. 8b (8a) - 11 • Problems: – Thorns can rival those of Gleditsia triacanthos – Takes over pasture land – Difficult to transplant – Allergenic pollen – Looks rough in winter Parkinsonia aculeata Retama Prosopis glandulosa Honey Mesquite Parkinsonia aculeata Retama • Thorns maintenance liability, can be weedy • Very site adaptable, cold & excessively wet soils are limiting, drought, heat, salt & alkaline soils OK Chilopsis linearis Desert Willow • Small, 15’ - 20’, deciduous tree, USDA z. 7 (6b?) - 10 – Irregular rounded crown, single or multi multi-trunk, trunk, brittle – Open canopy, filtered shade, movement in breezes • Catalpa Catalpa-like like flowers in small terminal panicles – Heavy bloom in spring, sporadic individual flowers and lesser flushes following rain events through mid mid-fall fall – White, light pink to maroon pink, bicolors, musky scent
Chilopsis linearis Desert Willow • Rapid grower; limestone soil, salt, heat, drought tolerant, but intolerant of poorly drained soils • Super patio or accent tree, picturesque, but messy capsules Cercis canadensis var. texensis Texas Redbud • Smaller, Smaller, more drought and alkaline soil tolerant than C. canadensis canadensis var. canadensis • Smaller dark glossy green leaves with with more undulate margins than than on C. canadensis var. canadensis • Round crown open deciduous tree, 15’ - 25’ • Bright yellow 1” powderpuff powderpuff-like like flowers, spring g to frost • Very drought and heat tolerant, hardy in USDA zones 7 - 10 • Casts filtered shade • Brittle wood subject to wind / ice / snow damage • Good small tree for West Texas and arid regions; slow to establish, hat-rack hat rack appearance when young Leucaena retusa Goldenball Leadtree Cercis canadensis var. mexicana Mexican Redbud • Even smaller, more drought, and alkaline soil tolerant than C. canadensis var. texensis • Even smaller, more glossy, and undulate margins than on C. canadensis var. texensis Cercis canadensis var. Cercis canadensis Three Varieties of Redbud Hybrid swarm texensis Cercis canadensis var. canadensis Cercis canadensis var. mexicana Courtesy Rowman & Littlefield Publ. Group; redrawn from originals by Benny J. Simpson Rhus glabra Smooth Sumac • Small moderately coarse textured tree / large shrub • Foliage in umbrella- shaped crown, 10’ - 15’ tall • O Outstanding di red d f fall ll color l even in warm temperate regions, panicles of red drupes on female plants • Tends to form colonies from suckers, hardy in USDA z. 4 (3) -9 • Any sunny site not permanently wet • Can be weedy Naturalizing, bank stabilization, highway plantings, wildlife food
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