Dalea bicolor var. argyrea |
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silver prairie clover |
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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 |
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Phenology | Flowering (summer–)fall(–winter). |
Habitat | Rocky slopes, open and brushy areas, often on limestone soils. |
Elevation | 400–2100 m. (1300–6900 ft.) |
Distribution |
NM; TX; Mexico (Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas) |
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. |
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Synonyms | D. argyrea |
Name authority | (A. Gray) Barneby: Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 27: 427. (1977) |
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