Identification Guide For Invasive Exotic Plants of the Florida Keys

Scientific Name:
Common Name(s):
Albizia lebbeck
Woman’s tongue
Height:
Leaves:
Flowers:
Bark:
Fruit:
Other:
Treatment:
Up to 65 feet
Alternate, twice compound, with 2-5 pairs of pinnae, each with 3-10 pairs of
leaflets. Leaflets are elliptical and oblong, 1-2 inches long, dull green above
and paler green below.
Flowers occur in showy, rounded clusters, cream or yellowish white with
long stamens. Fragrant, 2-inch pale yellow, mimosa- or powderpuff-like
flowers are produced in summer.
Pale in color.
Flat linear pod can reach up to a foot long. The pods are retained through
spring after the leaves have fallen and rattle in the wind.
Occurs in tropical hammocks in the Keys. Does not do well in waterlogged
soils. Woman’s tongue outcompetes native vegetation and can form large
populations both from seed and extensive root suckers. Grows naturally in
the Himalayas to altitudes of 5,200 feet.
Basal or stump with 30% Garlon 4
APIRS- http://aquat1.ifas.edu
www.co.miami-dade.fl.us/derm/badplants.htm
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