Robinia viscosa var. hartwigii (Koehne) Ashe

Robinia hartwigii Koehne, Mitt. Deuts. Dendr. Ges 22: 1. 1913.
Robinia viscosa Hartwigii [" Hardwegii"] Ashe, Jour. Elisha Mitchell Soc. 16: 175. 1922.
A shrub, about 3 m. high; branches densely puberulent as well as glandular with mostly short-stalked glands; stipules subulate-setaceous, rarely becoming spiny; leaves 1-1.5 dm. long; rachis densely villous-puberulent and with scattered glands; leaflets 13-23, elliptic to lanceolate, mucronate, 2-3.5 cm. long, 1-2 cm. wide, villous on both sides or glabrate above, densely villous beneath, dark above, pale beneath; racemes dense, 5-10 cm. long; peduncle and pedicels densely puberulent and glandular; calyx villous-puberulent, 4 mm. long, the lobes deltoid, acute, 4 mm. long; corolla rose-colored, 18 mm. long; pod linear, 6-10 cm. long, 12 mm. wide, 5-12-seeded, densely glandular-hispid.
Type locality: Cultivated material.
Distribution: North Carolina to Alabama and Georgia.