Dalea bicolor |
Dalea lumholtzii |
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silver prairie clover |
lumholtz's prairie clover |
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Stems | 1.5–5(–6) dm, glandular-verruculose. |
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Inflorescences | spikes, densely flowered, not obviously involucrate, 6–8.5 mm diam.; axis not visible, 0.4–1.4(–3) cm; bracts persistent, (1.5–)2–4 mm. |
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Peduncles | (1.5–)2.5–10 cm. |
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Stamens | 10, 5–7.7 mm, filaments distinct to 2.6–3.7 mm, anthers 0.6–0.7 mm. |
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Corollas | white, or epistemonous petals blue or bluish; not conventionally papilionaceous; banner plane, 3–5.2 mm, blade ovate-elliptic to suborbiculate, not peltate, 2–2.4 × 2–2.4 mm; epistemonous petals attached near middle of stamen tube, blades 2.3–4 × 1.1–1.3 mm. |
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Calyces | strongly asymmetric, deeply recessed opposite banner, 2.7–4(–4.3) mm, glabrate or pubescent distally; tube 2.1–2.8(–3) mm, with (0 or)3–6 minute glands between ribs, lobes subulate. |
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Legumes | 2.2–2.6 mm, puberulent distally, eglandular. |
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Seeds | 1.6–1.8 mm. |
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Perennial | herbs, erect, pilosulous to puberulent. |
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Principal | leaves (2–)2.5–5 cm; leaflets (9–)21–35, blades linear, linear-oblanceolate, or linear-elliptic, (1.5–)2–9(–10) mm. |
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Dalea bicolor |
Dalea lumholtzii |
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Phenology | Flowering fall. | |
Habitat | Open rocky hillsides and canyons, open pine or oak woodlands. | |
Elevation | 1400–1900 m. (4600–6200 ft.) | |
Distribution |
sw United States; Mexico
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AZ; Mexico (Chihuahua, Sonora) |
Discussion | Varieties 5 (1 in the flora). Only var. argyrea enters the flora area; the other varieties are confined to Mexico. Variety orcuttiana Barneby occurs in Baja California, var. naviculifolia (Hemsley) Barneby in Oaxaca, var. canescens (M. Martens & Galeotti) Barneby in Oaxaca and Puebla, and var. bicolor is widely distributed in central and northern Mexico. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Some herbarium labels comment on the lemon odor of Dalea lumholtzii. Although the epistemonous petals are generally blue or bluish, white-petaled plants are not uncommon in the flora area. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. | FNA vol. 11. |
Parent taxa | Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Dalea | Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Dalea |
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Name authority | Humboldt & Bonpland ex Willdenow: Hort. Berol. 2: plate 89. (1809): Enum. Pl., 787. (1809) | B. L. Robinson & Fernald: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 30: 115. (1894) |
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