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 />
Leucaena leucocephala<br />
Lead tree<br />
Height:<br />
Leaves:<br />
Flowers:<br />
Bark:<br />
Fruit:<br />
O<strong>the</strong>r:<br />
Treatment:<br />
Shrub or small tree to 25 feet in height<br />
Gray-green, bipinnate leaves and numerous 3/8 to 1/2 inch, slightly sickleshaped<br />
leaflets.<br />
Terminal or axillary flower spikes produce white, multi-stamened,<br />
powderpuff-like flowers.<br />
Smooth, light gray to tan.<br />
Pods are narrow, four to six inches long, 1/2 inch wide, green turning to<br />
brown and produced in clusters. Seeds are brown and somewhat flattened.<br />
Lead tree is a weedy, fast-growing tree that readily invades coastal strand,<br />
pine rockland, <strong>the</strong> margins and canopy gaps <strong>of</strong> hardwood forests, and open<br />
disturbed sites. Population densities can be high if left unchecked. Tends to<br />
grow in dense groups.<br />
Basal or stump with 40% Garlon 4<br />
APIRS- http://aquat1.ifas.edu<br />
www.co.miami-dade.fl.us/derm/badplants.htm<br />
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