Texas Mimosa
Mimosa texana
Texas mimosa (catclaw mimosa) is a dense, thorny brushland shrub with fragrant cream-pink puffballs, important nesting cover and a nitrogen-fixer for south Texas thornscrub.
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Type
- shrub
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 4–10 ft
- Spacing
- 5–10 ft apart
- Light
- part shade
- Soil moisture
- dry
- Soil pH
- neutral, alkaline
- Bloom
- May, June, July, August, September
- Bloom colors
- white, pink
- Wildlife value
- pollinators, butterflies, larval host
- Landscape uses
- specimen, hedge or screen
- Native states
- TX
Related native plants
More Mimosa species
- Sunshine Mimosa (Mimosa strigillosa)
- Fragrant Mimosa (Mimosa borealis)
- Velvetpod Mimosa (Mimosa dysocarpa)