Part 4 (1/2)
Pulse family. Leguminosae.
”The chief woody plant of the wooded table-lands and high valleys throughout southern and western Texas, often forming impenetrable thickets.” (Coulter) Hunter: throughout the black land prairies; honey yield abundant, main source in State, good light honey. April, and again in June.*
Neptunia lutea Benth.
Pulse family. Leguminosae.
”In Eastern and Southern Texas, extending as far up the Rio Grande as Eagle Pa.s.s.” (Coulter). College, open prairies; not plentiful, bees rarely found on it; some pollen. May.*
SENSITIVE BRIAR. Schrankia angustata Torr. and Gray.
Pulse family. Leguminosae.
”Found in Texas as far as San Diego and probably in the San Antonio region.” (Coulter). Hunter: open prairies; honey yield not important; plants scarce; pollen. April to September.*
HUISACHE. Acacia Farnesiana Willd.
Pulse family. Leguminosae.
”From San Antonio to the Gulf Coast and lower Rio Grande.”
(Coulter). Very plentiful in richer soil of Southwest Texas; honey yield good for stimulating early brood rearing; also pollen. February, April.*
HUAJILLI. Acacia Berlandiera Benth.
Pulse family. Leguminosae.
”From the Nueces to the Rio Grande and west to Devil's River. Common on the bluffs of the lower Rio Grande.” (Coulter). On dry and rocky hills in solid ma.s.ses generally. Honey yield very heavy and main surplus in Southwest Texas; fine quality, white; considered the best honey in Texas in quality. April.*
PARADISE FLOWER. CATSCLAW. DEVILS CLAWS. Acacia Greggii Gray.
Pulse family. Leguminosae.
”In dry or rocky soil, Texas, New Mexico.” (Small). Floresville: All over Southwest Texas. Honey yield very abundant, a main yielder of fine quality honey. April.*
ROUND-FLOWERED CATSCLAW. Acacia Roemeriana Schlecht.
Pulse family. Leguminosae.
”Throughout Texas south of the Colorado and west to El Paso.”
(Coulter). Hunter: in brushy woodlands; honey yield is heavy, of fine quality, but plants not abundant. April and May.*
Acacia amentacea DC.
Pulse family. Leguminosae.
”From the Guadalupe to the lower Rio Grande and west to the Pecos.”
(Coulter). Very plentiful throughout Southwest Texas, on prairies.
Honey yield of no importance. Bees gather pollen from it occasionally in early summer.*