Trees are indispensible for life as we know it. They clean our air, shade our streets, anchor our soil, and bring beauty to our landscapes. Beyond their environmental services, trees carry deep ...

Black locust trees bloom in May and June, emitting a fragrant aroma and signaling seasonal changes. Often considered a nuisance species, black locusts play an important role in colonizing disturbed ...

Black locust produces attractive, fragrant white flowers on 4- to 8-inch long racemes in May or early June. As the trees mature, they develop a high leaf canopy, which produces a beautiful light ...

This tree has compound leaves that are eight to 10 inches long, made up of seven to 17 small rounded leaflets arranged alternately on the twigs. The black locust has thorns on the twig where the buds ...

Each summer, most black locust trees are attacked by a tiny insect larva called a leafminer. There are many species of leafminers, but this one is the larvae of the black and yellow locust ...

Q: My golden locust tree (Robinia pseudocacia ‘Frisia’) has lots of dead branches and scanty foliage. It’s always slow to leaf out, but even now in June the foliage hasn’t fully developed.

The deciduous Purple Robe Locust grows moderately fast to a fairly open, attractive, rounded 40-foot-tall by 30-foot-wide tree. Brown, rope-like ridges with intervening furrows define the bark.

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 ...

A pioneer tree species, black locust easily invades disturbed sites, and some consider it a nuisance species. Black locusts are prolific seed producers, but an impermeable seed coat prevents most from ...

The classic and trusted book “Fifty Common Trees of Indiana” by T.E. Shaw was published in 1956 as a user-friendly guide to local species. Nearly 70 years later, the publication has been updated ...