Background, Parking Strip, Parking Lot, Street Tree, With Rocks
Special Uses
Shade Tree, Naturalizing
Attracts Wildlife
Birds, Hummingbirds
Information by: Kathleen Moore Photographer: Mountain States Nursery
Description
Notes
Upright, desert tree to 30' x 30'. Will grow moderately fast with monthly irrigation. Trees bloom profusely in spring with clusters of bright yellow blossoms. Can be drought or cold deciduous. Blooms before Cercidium microphyllum. Branches form erect rounded graceful tree usually low branching. Great nesting for native birds. Native to the Sonoran desert.
Frost tolerant to 15 F.
Recently reclassified as Parkinsonia florida.