#1014 most planted
Robinia hispida
Bristly locust · also Rose-acacia, Moss locust, Rose locust
186
trees mapped
0.00%
of all named trees
5
cities
16 in
median trunk (41 cm, 181 measured)
47 yr
median age (55% have a planting date)
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Robinia hispida, also known as bristly locust or rose-acacia, is a shrub or small tree native to the southeastern United States. Valued as an ornamental, this species can sometimes escape cultivation and naturalize in the wild.
Where it grows
Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.
- 1000.02%48 yr17 in
- 690.01%—14 in
- 130.02%—4.7 in
- 30.00%—22 in
- 10.00%——
Native range
Terrestrial ecoregions where this species is native. Trees in the dataset mostly stand well outside it.
Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests
- Allegheny Highlands forests
- Appalachian mixed mesophytic forests
- Appalachian Piedmont forests
- Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests
Other Robinia in the catalogue
7 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.
