Honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos) is a deciduous and thorny legume tree that is aggressive and fast-growing. The tree’s bark is grayish-brown and furrowed with long, scaly ridges. Honey locusts ...

Q: This past spring, I had a honey locust tree cut down and the trunk ground up, hoping to grow grass in the space. However, during this hot, humid summer, hundreds of little trees have sprouted all ...

The trees you now see throughout the county with the showy white flowers are probably black locust trees. Black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) is a medium-sized tree with a single small leaf and thorns ...

After their petite leaflets drop like golden confetti each fall, honey locust trees hold on to dangling, twisty, brown seedpods. Native to the Midwest, the honey locust is a widely planted ornamental ...

The mechanisms governing seed distribution and distance are complex. Dandelion seeds fly away on gossamer wings … shrub yellowroot seeds sail away on flotation bladders … Velcro-like seeds cling to ...

Here’s a question I asked myself, included here because I’ve noticed so many golden locust trees struggling this spring: Q: My golden locust tree (Robinia pseudocacia ‘Frisia’) has lots of dead ...

Plant breeders keep hoping for a big success. The tough Black Locust, Robinia pseudoacacia, has been crossed several times with the shrub-like Clammy Locust, Robinia viscosa. The tall and graceful ...

University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences. "Black locust tree shows promise for biomass potential." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 13 June 2013.

Black locust trees are captivating in mid-May when their large, fragrant white blossoms open and make the medium to large trees suddenly apparent along the edges of wooded areas and in small groves.

I continue our look at some of the rather common, yet often lesser known Indiana trees with the locusts. Now, when the name locust comes up in a conservation, it is usually of some insect. The ...

Q: We are curious about the locust trees. They typically are one of the last trees to get leaves in spring and usually begin losing their leaves in mid-August. This year, they were a little later ...