| Common Name |
Torrey Mesquite, Western Mesquite, Mesquite |
| Latin Name |
Prosopis glandulosa var. torreyana |
| Native Habitat |
Below 5,000 feet in Chihuahuan, Mojave, Sonoran, and
Lower Colorado Deserts |
| Soil |
Dry to moist, decomposed granite, sand, clay loam, low
to some organic content, well drained |
| Water |
Once per month |
| Height X Width |
37 feet X 50 feet, usual 10 feet X 25 feet |
| Protective Mechanism |
Thorns |
| Leaves |
Lime green, winter deciduous, slow to leaf out in spring |
| Garden Suitability |
Fragrant, Songbird, Sonoran, Butterfly, Ethnobotanical |
| Ornamental Value |
Yellow flowers in late spring, fragrant, seedpods are
sometime scarlet |
| Nature Value |
Soil stabilizer, flowers used by butterflies and bees,
beans eaten by birds and mammals |
| Native American Uses |
Beans ground into pinole, medicinal, bark used for
basketry, cloth, and rope, wood used for firewood and making tools, gum
used for glues and paint |
| Links |
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| Images and data |
http://www.sbs.utexas.edu/mbierner/bio406d/images/pics/fab/prosopis_glandulosa.htm |
| Data |
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/duke_energy/Prosopis_glandulosa.html |
| Images and data |
http://www.noble.org/imagegallery/woodhtml/Mesquite.html |
| Images and data |
http://www.wnmu.edu/academic/nspages2/gilaflora/prosopis_glandulosa.html |
| Data |
http://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/plants/tree/progla/all.html |
| Distribution map |
http://esp.cr.usgs.gov/data/atlas/little/prosjuli.pdf |
