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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Robinia hartwigii   FAMILY Fabaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Robinia viscosa var. hartwegii   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Robinia viscosa var. hartwigii

INCLUDED WITHIN Guide to the Vascular Plants of the Blue Ridge (Wofford, 1989)

Robinia viscosa

SYNONYMOUS WITH Robinia (Leguminosae: Papilionoideae) (Isely & Peabody, 1984)

Robinia viscosa var. hartwigii

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-32-003:

Robinia hartwigii   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Robinia hartwigii

 

COMMON NAME:
Granite Dome Locust, Highlands Locust, Hartwig's Locust


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image of Robinia hartwigii, Granite Dome Locust, Highlands Locust, Hartwig's Locust

Ron Lance    rwl_viscosa_hartwegii_3

May        

Racemes with short-stalked glandular trichomes; petals roseate or whitish, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).


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image of Robinia hartwigii, Granite Dome Locust, Highlands Locust, Hartwig's Locust

Ron Lance    rwl_viscosa_var_hartwegii

May        

image of Robinia hartwigii, Granite Dome Locust, Highlands Locust, Hartwig's Locust

JK Marlow    jkm140607_523

June    Jackson County    NC

Whiteside Mountain

Leaflets usually 13-21, plants never with long, hispid pubescence, per Weakley's Flora (2015).


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image of Robinia hartwigii, Granite Dome Locust, Highlands Locust, Hartwig's Locust

JK Marlow    jkm140607_526

June    Jackson County    NC

Whiteside Mountain

Var. hartwigii is locally abundant on Whiteside mountain in North Carolina, per Robinia (Leguminosae: Papilionoideae) (Isely & Peabody, 1984).

image of Robinia hartwigii, Granite Dome Locust, Highlands Locust, Hartwig's Locust

JK Marlow    jkm230609_4029

June    Jackson County    NC

Whiteside Mountain

image of Robinia hartwigii, Granite Dome Locust, Highlands Locust, Hartwig's Locust

JK Marlow    jkm230609_4031

June    Jackson County    NC

Whiteside Mountain

image of Robinia hartwigii, Granite Dome Locust, Highlands Locust, Hartwig's Locust

JK Marlow    jkm230609_4043

June    Jackson County    NC

Whiteside Mountain

image of Robinia hartwigii, Granite Dome Locust, Highlands Locust, Hartwig's Locust

JK Marlow    jkm230609_4051

June    Jackson County    NC

Whiteside Mountain

image of Robinia hartwigii, Granite Dome Locust, Highlands Locust, Hartwig's Locust

JK Marlow    jkm140704_575

July    Jackson County    NC

Whiteside Mountain

Branches and branchlets bearing viscid glands elevated on short trichomes, per Revision of the genus Robinia (Leguminosae: Papilionoideae) (Peabody, 1984).

image of Robinia hartwigii, Granite Dome Locust, Highlands Locust, Hartwig's Locust

JK Marlow    jkm150814_734

August    Jackson County    NC

Whiteside Mountain

Var. hartwigii is shrubby in habit and sets abundant fruit up to 12cm long, per Revision of the genus Robinia (Leguminosae: Papilionoideae) (Peabody, 1984).

image of Robinia hartwigii, Granite Dome Locust, Highlands Locust, Hartwig's Locust

JK Marlow    jkm150814_734b

August    Jackson County    NC

Whiteside Mountain

Var. hartwigii is a little known, prolifically fruiting form of R. viscosa, per Robinia (Leguminosae: Papilionoideae) (Isely & Peabody, 1984).

image of Robinia hartwigii, Granite Dome Locust, Highlands Locust, Hartwig's Locust

JK Marlow    jkm150814_739

August    Jackson County    NC

Whiteside Mountain

Short glandular pubescence [vs. var. viscosa's sessile or bump-like glands], per Robinia (Leguminosae: Papilionoideae) (Isely & Peabody, 1984).

image of Robinia hartwigii, Granite Dome Locust, Highlands Locust, Hartwig's Locust

JK Marlow    jkm180821_4048

August    Jackson County    NC

Whiteside Mountain

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Robinia hartwigii   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Robinia viscosa var. hartwegii   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Robinia viscosa var. hartwigii

INCLUDED WITHIN Guide to the Vascular Plants of the Blue Ridge (Wofford, 1989)
Robinia viscosa

SYNONYMOUS WITH Robinia (Leguminosae: Papilionoideae) (Isely & Peabody, 1984)
Robinia viscosa var. hartwigii

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-32-003:
Robinia hartwigii   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Robinia hartwigii

 

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Shrub
Perennial

Habitat: forests and outcrop edges on high elevation granitic domes, also clearings; disjunct in longleaf pine sandhills, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas

Rare (endemic to near Highlands, NC, and apparently disjunct in SC Sandhills)

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IS THE PLANT "ARMED"?
Stems of juvenile plants usually armed with paired stipular or nodal spines

LEAVES:
Deciduous
Odd-pinnately compound: 13-21 leaflets (usually)
Mostly alternate

FLOWER:
Summer
Pale pink/ Whitish
Bilaterally symmetrical
2-lipped campanulate calyx
5-parted papilionaceous corolla
Superior ovary

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Legume

 

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