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silver prairie clover

Habit Shrubs, relatively erect, low and rounded, pilosulous distally.
Stems

(2–)4–9 dm, glandular-tuberculate or -verrucose distally.

Inflorescences

spikes, relatively densely flowered, not involucrate, 8–10 mm diam.;

axis not to partially visible, 0.5–4 cm;

bracts persistent or deciduous, 1–5.5(–6) mm.

Peduncles

0–4(–5) cm.

Stamens

10, 5.6–10.5(–12) mm, filaments distinct to (1.7–)2–4 mm, anthers 0.6–1 mm.

Corollas

bicolored, banner yellowish or white, reddish in age, epistemonous petals rose-purple to pink or violet; papilionaceous;

banner 3.2–7.5(–8) mm, blade deltate-cordate to orbiculate, (2.2–)2.8–4.8(–5.8) × 2.4–5.2 mm; epistemonous petals attached near or proximal to middle of stamen tube;

wings 3.6–5.5 × 1.8–3 mm;

keel connate valvately, blades 4.6–7 × 2.1–4.4 mm.

Calyces

subsymmetric, (3.5–)3.8–5 mm, densely short-pubescent;

tube 2.6–3.2 mm, with 2–4 blister glands between ribs, lobes broadly triangular-apiculate, unequal, abaxial longest.

Legumes

2.2–2.7 mm, usually pilosulous distally, rarely glabrous, and dotted with small glands.

Seeds

apparently unknown.

Principal

leaves 1–3.5 cm;

leaflets (5 or)7–13, blades obovate to obovate-oblong, (2–)3–9 mm.

Dalea bicolor var. argyrea

Phenology Flowering (summer–)fall(–winter).
Habitat Rocky slopes, open and brushy areas, often on limestone soils.
Elevation 400–2100 m. (1300–6900 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
NM; TX; Mexico (Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas)
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Discussion

Variety argyrea occurs in trans-Pecos Texas and Val Verde County, and in southeastern New Mexico in Chaves, Eddy, and Lincoln counties.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Dalea > Dalea bicolor
Synonyms D. argyrea
Name authority (A. Gray) Barneby: Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 27: 427. (1977)
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