Distribution in West Virginia.—Scattered throughout the State but nowhere common except in small areas.
Habitat.—Grows principally on swamp borders and along streams.
Notes.—The Wild Plum is found growing in dense thickets in some of our upland swamps where it produces large crops of fruit. The tree is of little importance commercially but is sometimes used as a stock upon which domestic plums are grafted.
HONEY LOCUST
Gleditsia triacanthos, L.
Form.—Height 40-50 feet, diameter 1-2 feet; trunk usually short and armed with branched thorns; crown broad, round-topped.
Leaves.—Alternate, singly or doubly compound, 7-8 inches long, the single compound leaves having 18-28 leaflets; the double compound leaves 8-14 divisions each, with 18-20 leaflets; leaflets lanceolate-oblong, somewhat serrate.
Flowers.—May-June; polygamous; small, greenish.