Velvetpod Mimosa
Mimosa dysocarpa
Velvetpod mimosa is a prickly Southwestern shrub with bottlebrush spikes of rose-pink flowers in summer, a tough, nitrogen-fixing pollinator plant for dry uplands.
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Type
- shrub
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 2–5 ft
- Spacing
- 3–5 ft apart
- Light
- sun, part shade
- Soil moisture
- dry
- Soil pH
- neutral, alkaline
- Bloom
- June, July, August, September, October
- Bloom colors
- pink
- Wildlife value
- songbirds, pollinators
- Landscape uses
- hedge or screen, foundation
- Native states
- AZ, NM, TX