Albizia julibrissin

Silk tree, mimosa, Mimosa

Family: Fabaceae · Type: tree · Not Native

Silk tree is a naturalized tree found in the Sacramento Valley and southwestern California in disturbed coastal and riparian areas at elevations below 500 meters. Flowering from May to July, this tree produces delicate pink to green flowers with feathery, silky stamens. Growing with a broad, spreading crown and reaching up to 10 to 15 meters tall, it has a distinctive deciduous growth habit. Its compound leaves feature 8 to 24 primary leaflets, each with 26 to 60 tiny secondary leaflets less than 1.5 centimeters long. The tree produces elongated gray-brown seed pods 10 to 20 centimeters in length, giving it a distinctive ornamental appearance.

Habitat: Generally disturbed, coastal, riparian areas

Bloom period: May-Jul

Elevation: < 500 m

Bioregions: ScV, SW, expected elsewhere

California counties: Butte, Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Riverside, Amador, Yolo, Sacramento, Santa Clara, Santa Barbara

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.