Honeylocust
Gleditsia triacanthos L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 21 m
- wide
- 21 m
Fabaceae
Also called Honey locust, Honey Locust, Honey shuck, Thornless honey locust
Formerly Acacia villaregalis, Caesalpiniodes heterophyllum, Caesalpiniodes triacanthum, Gleditsia brachycarpos, and 14 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- WC. & E. U.S.A. to Mexico (NW. Nuevo León, Tamaulipas)Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 18 m to 24 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 18 m to 24 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- Yellow, greenRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -40 °C (USDA zone 3a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Chinese
- 皂荚子, 美国皂荚
- Asturian
- alcacia de tres escayos
- Czech
- dřezovec trojtrnný
- Danish
- Almindelig Tretorn
- Esperanto
- Kristodorna glediĉio
- Spanish
- Acacia de tres espinas
- Finnish
- Kolmioka
- French
- Févier d'Amérique
- Italian
- Spino di Giuda
- Dutch
- Valse Christusdoorn
- Polish
- Iglicznia trójcierniowa
- Slovenian
- trnata gledičevka
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Gleditsia triacanthos (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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