Lydia Casey of Clark County looks over a roughly 1- to 2-month-old black locust tree growing along Northeast St. Johns Road. They're fast-growing and hard-to-kill weeds, and Casey has been trying ...

This article is adapted from one that originally appeared as "Black Locust: an All American Tree" in The Interpreter. As the strongest timber in North America, black locust helped build Jamestown ...

October’s Weed of the Month is a tree called black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia). Black locust is native to North America but not native to Minnesota. It has been widely planted as an ornamental ...

Experts say while the tree is "lovely" looking, ... "Black locust is a major weed and, lovely though it is, definitely not a tree we should plant in Australia," she told Yahoo.

Although considered a ”weed tree” by many, black locust has many values. For starters, it is the only fast-growing tree that is also an excellent firewood.

Could this tree be a locust, even though it’s blooming white flowers? — M.C., Albuquerque. A: It sounds to me like you’ve stumbled upon a black locust tree (Robinia pseudoacacia).

The familiar species we chose are the well-loved jacaranda and widely planted London plane tree as well as box elder, European nettle tree, honey locust, sweetgum, southern magnolia, callery pear ...

Botanists have suggested that the black locust is one of the few examples of a tree exported by the American Indians from the mountains to the coastal plain for domestic use, and by the time the ...