locust tree

West Indian locust tree having pinnate leaves and panicles of large white or purplish flowers; yields very hard tough wood

honey locust of swamps and bottomlands of southern United States having short oval pods; yields dark heavy wood

tall usually spiny North American tree having small greenish-white flowers in drooping racemes followed by long twisting seed pods; yields very hard durable reddish-brown wood; introduced to temperate Old World

large thorny tree of eastern and central United States having pinnately compound leaves and drooping racemes of white flowers; widely naturalized in many varieties in temperate regions

small rough-barked locust of southeastern United States having racemes of pink flowers and glutinous branches and seeds