GREAT AMERICANS: THE LOCUST TREES
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FEBRUARY 22, 2004, Issue 100
GREAT AMERICANS: THE LOCUST TREES
This morning, there’s a breath-takingly beautiful winter tree photo on my cousin Nancy’s site, and she mentioned our mutual love of winter tree viewing, so that inspired me to write about another fine winter-viewing tree, our native locust.
picture: Long Island Sound (Dolphin Cove, Stamford, CT)
North America has two great locust trees that range today from southern Canada to northern Florida. The Black (or Yellow) Locust (robinia pseudo-acacia) was pushed into Appalachia by the Ice Age but was spread back over the Eastern seaboard by the European settlers. The Honey Locust (gleditsia triacnthos) is a mid-westerner.