Periodic soakings are satisfactory. Drops leaves early and can look shaggy. Used for windbreaks, visual screens, desert or wild gardens, lawn or garden specimen.
Flowers appear in spring and often through fall.
Gallon-size plants bear in first year. Flowers followed by seed pods 4 to 12 inches in length. Some litter from seed pods. Tips of pods are very spiny, so be careful around playgrounds and high circulation areas.