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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Legumes, Milkworts, and Allies
  6. Legumes
  7. Thorn-tree Subfamily
  8. New World Mesquites

genus

New World Mesquites

Neltuma

Includes
3 native 5 introduced
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Children

  • Honey Mesquite native
  • Velvet Mesquite native
  • Mesquite present
  • Western Honey Mesquite native
  • Smooth Mesquite present
  • Kiawe present
  • White Carob Tree present
  • Baja California Mesquite
  • Chilean Mesquite present
  • Calden
  • Neltuma flexuosa
  • Neltuma nigra
  • Neltuma kuntzei
  • Neltuma alpataco
  • Neltuma ruscifolia
  • Neltuma elata
  • Neltuma hassleri
  • Neltuma argentina
  • Neltuma ruizlealii
  • Neltuma castellanosii
  • Cusqui
  • Neltuma fiebrigii

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Top native new world mesquites All

Native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

  • Honey Mesquite Neltuma glandulosa caterpillars 31 hosts 8 food 21 flowers 32 shelter 2
  • Western Honey Mesquite Neltuma odorata caterpillars 24 hosts 7 food 16 flowers 67 shelter 1
  • Velvet Mesquite Neltuma velutina caterpillars 22 hosts 6 food 13 flowers 54 shelter 1

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