Rutaceae
Lime pricklyash
Zanthoxylum fagara
- Family
- Rutaceae
- Genus
- Zanthoxylum
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Common names
By language (4)
- Arabic
- فاغرة معروفة
- arz
- فاغره معروفه
- English
- Lime pricklyash, Lime prickly-ash, Wild lime
- Greek
- Άγριο μοσχολέμονο
Synonyms
- Fagara fagara Small
- Fagaras fagara Kuntze
- Pterota fagara Crantz
- Schinus fagara L.
- Zanthoxylum fagara var. fagara
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Shrub, Tree
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Lower 48 states: native
Photos
Photo: homeredwardprice, CC BY 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons ![Lime pricklyash: Foodplants most commonly used by Heraclides caterpillars. a–c Zanthoxylum fagara [L.] Sarg (Colima, Lime Prickly-ash), USA: TX: Duval Co., Benavides, 19-Apr-201](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Zanthoxylum_fagara_and_Z._clava-herculis%2C_Heraclides_foodplants.jpg/1280px-Zanthoxylum_fagara_and_Z._clava-herculis%2C_Heraclides_foodplants.jpg)
Photo: Kojiro Shiraiwa, Qian Cong, Nick V. Grishin, CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Photo by David J. Stang, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: sonnia hill, CC BY 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: sonnia hill, CC BY 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: KATHERINE WAGNER-REISS, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: KATHERINE WAGNER-REISS, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: KATHERINE WAGNER-REISS, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: KATHERINE WAGNER-REISS, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.