Identification Guide For Invasive Exotic Plants of the Florida Keys
Identification Guide For Invasive Exotic Plants of the Florida Keys
Identification Guide For Invasive Exotic Plants of the Florida Keys
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Scientific Name:<br />
Common Name(s):<br />
Acacia auriculiformis<br />
Earleaf Acacia<br />
Height:<br />
Leaves:<br />
Flowers:<br />
Bark:<br />
Fruit:<br />
O<strong>the</strong>r:<br />
Treatment:<br />
Up to 50 feet<br />
Alternate, simple leaves with flattened leaf stalks. Leaves are blade-like and<br />
slightly curved, 5-8 inches long with 3-7 parallel veins.<br />
Bright yellow, buttonlike flower clusters appear in spring and sporadically<br />
through summer and fall.<br />
Smooth<br />
Fruit is somewhat ear-shaped and brown, with contorted pods that persist for<br />
months. Flat black seeds.<br />
Common in disturbed areas, this species has invaded pinelands, scrub, and<br />
hammocks. Tolerates a wide range <strong>of</strong> soil types, including seasonally<br />
waterlogged soils. Earleaf acacia is exceptionally weedy along roadsides and<br />
o<strong>the</strong>r disturbed sites and readily invades pine rockland habitat and <strong>the</strong><br />
margins <strong>of</strong> hardwood forests.<br />
Stump with 50% Garlon 3A<br />
APIRS- http://aquat1.ifas.edu<br />
www.co.miami-dade.fl.us/derm/badplants.htm<br />
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