Honey Locust is a thorny tree of eastern bottomlands with extraordinarily long, branched thorns on the trunk and branches. Its large, flat seed pods contain a sweet pulp that was eaten by megafauna like mammoths and giant sloths during the Pleistocene. Today, cattle, deer, squirrels, and birds consume the pods, dispersing seeds.
Best time to see a Honey Locust
The best time to see a Honey Locust is March–August, when about 60% of U.S. sightings happen, based on 30,008 research-grade iNaturalist observations.
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