Leucaena leucocephala(Lam.) de Wit

White leadtree

WFO wfo-0000164084 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Leucaena leucocephala, photographed by Don Loarie
fig. a Don Loarie, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-22 / obs. 203681869
Leucaena leucocephala, photographed by Dana Lee Ling
fig. b Dana Lee Ling, CC0 1.0 / obs. 202517336
Leucaena leucocephala, photographed by Kevin Faccenda
fig. c Kevin Faccenda, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204058668
Leucaena leucocephala, photographed by 五色鳥
fig. d 五色鳥, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201484618
Leucaena leucocephala, photographed by Kevin Faccenda
fig. e Kevin Faccenda, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204054967
Leucaena leucocephala, photographed by Ben
fig. f Ben, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200961955
Leucaena leucocephala, photographed by Kevin Faccenda
fig. g Kevin Faccenda, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204062198
Leucaena leucocephala, photographed by Tyler Bishop
fig. h Tyler Bishop, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199542883

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Flowering n = 1,203 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 1,203 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 16 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Acacia biceps Willd.
  • Acacia caringa Buch.-Ham. ex Wall.
  • Acacia frondosa Willd.
  • Acacia leucocephala (Lam.) F.Dietr.
  • Acacia pterocarpa Bertero
  • Galega mimosoides Willd.
  • Leucaena blancii Goyena
  • Leucaena blancii Ram.Goyena
  • Leucaena glabra Benth.
  • Leucaena glabrata Rose
  • Mimosa biceps Poir.
  • Mimosa frondosa Klein ex Poir.
  • Mimosa glandulosa C.Sm.
  • Mimosa leucocephala Lam.
  • Tephrosia barclayana Sweet
  • Tephrosia mimosoides (Willd.) Pers.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.