Texas Kidneywood
Eysenhardtia texana
Texas kidneywood is an airy, fragrant legume shrub that flushes white flower spikes after rains, a nitrogen-fixer beloved by bees and butterflies and browsed by wildlife. The leaves have documented tea use.
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Type
- tree
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 6–10 ft
- Spacing
- 6–8 ft apart
- Light
- sun
- Soil moisture
- dry
- Soil pH
- alkaline
- Bloom
- May, June, July, August, September, October
- Bloom colors
- white
- Wildlife value
- butterflies, larval host, pollinators
- Landscape uses
- specimen, hedge or screen
- Native states
- TX