Eve’s Necklace
Styphnolobium affine
2 Gallon — $30 (1 available) · Gallon — $20 (2 available)
- Sun
- Full Sun, Part Shade
- Water
- Low, Moderate, Drought tolerant once established
- Mature size
- 15–30 ft tall × 15–25 ft wide
- Best for
- Native ecosystem plant, Pollinator Plant
About these sizes
- 2 Gallon
- A larger, more established plant — more size and root system from day one.
- Gallon
- Our standard size: a 1-gallon nursery pot, about 6–7 inches across.
Pay at the nursery, plus 6.75% sales tax. Send your request and we'll confirm availability and your pickup time within 24 hours, then hold your plants. How it works
Planting & care
- Growth habit
- Multi-trunk or single trunk with rounded canopy
- Typical bloom
- Mar–Apr
- Cold hardy to
- Zones 6–9
- Soil
- Adaptable; prefers well-drained soils but tolerates clay
Where to plant
Full sun to part shade — it grows best and develops the strongest form in full sun, though it tolerates some afternoon shade. It's adaptable to rocky, sandy, or clay soil and does well in alkaline conditions.
Watering
Water regularly the first season to encourage deep root development. After that, it's drought tolerant and usually does fine on rainfall alone across most of Texas.
Cutting back
Prune in late winter to shape structure, develop a strong trunk, and remove crossing or crowded branches. Train early for a single or multi-trunk form, and avoid heavy pruning once established.
About Eve’s Necklace
Eve's Necklace is one of the few Texas native trees that truly delivers year-round. In spring, it opens clusters of delicate white flowers that look like tiny wisteria — one of the earliest native trees to bloom, arriving right when native bees are waking up and looking for food. But the flowers are just the beginning.
By fall, the show belongs to the seed pods: long, dark, constricted between each seed into a chain of beads that hangs from the branches all winter long. That's where the name comes from, and once you've seen it, you don't forget it. Those pods make the tree just as interesting bare as it is in full leaf, which is rare.
Native to the cedar breaks, limestone woodlands, and creek drainages of Central and East Texas, it's completely at home in the rocky, alkaline soils that cover most of the Hill Country and Cross Timbers. It's drought tolerant once established, handles clay without complaint, and grows into a handsome small tree of 15 to 25 feet — the right size for a smaller yard, a patio, or a featured spot near a garden gate.
It's genuinely rare in the nursery trade. Customers who know native plants recognize it immediately; customers who don't will ask about those unmistakable pods every single time.
Where it's native
Eve’s Necklace occurs naturally in 4 Texas ecoregions — Blackland Prairies, Post Oak Savannah, Cross Timbers and Prairies, Edwards Plateau. Plants grown from local ecotypes are best adapted to our soils and climate here in the Blackland Prairies.
- 1Trans-Pecos
- 2High Plains
- 3Rolling Plains
- 4Edwards Plateau
- 5Cross Timbers and Prairies
- 6South Texas Plains
- 7Blackland Prairies
- 8Post Oak Savannah
- 9Gulf Prairies and Marshes
- 10Pineywoods
