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• n  erect shrub with small if any spines having racemes of white to yellow flowers followed by curved pointed pods and black shiny seeds; West Indies and Florida

• Wink's housewives watch warily for rattlesnakes slithering through the mesquite and catclaw bushes in their yards.
• Such worthless plant life as mesquite and catclaw absorbs 35% of the rainfall, and another 40% is lost to evaporation.

• cat's-claw
• black bead
• Pithecellodium unguis-cati

News & Articles

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• World around you
  Pink pompoms on the prairie, the inflorescence of catclaw sensitive briar is unique and easy to identify.
  July 7, 2013 - Tulsa World
• Outdoors: World around you
  Pink pompoms on the prairie, the inflorescence of catclaw sensitive briar is unique and easy to identify.
  July 7, 2013 - Tulsa World