Dalea candida |
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white prairie-clover |
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Stems | 2.5–10 dm, minutely gland-dotted or eglandular. |
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Inflorescences | spikes, densely to somewhat loosely flowered, cylindric, not involucrate, 6–9.5(–10) mm diam.; axis visible or not, especially in fruit, (1–)1.5–5.5(–7.5) cm; bracts early deciduous or proximals persistent, interfloral ones held in place by crowded flowers, 2.5–5.5 mm. |
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Peduncles | 0–5.5(–7.5) cm. |
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Stamens | 5, (5–)5.2–7.6 mm, filaments distinct to 2.5–4.5 mm, anthers 0.7–1.2 mm. |
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Corollas | white; not conventionally papilionaceous; banner (4–)4.2–5.7 mm, blade deltate-obovate, 2.3–3.4 × 2.4–3.7(–4.2) mm; epistemonous petals attached at separation of filaments, blades 2–3.1 × 1.1–2.6 mm. |
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Calyces | subsymmetric, (2.9–)3–4.2(–4.4) mm, pilosulous or tube glabrous; tube 1.9–2.7 mm, not deeply recessed opposite banner, with 1 (or 2) glands between ribs, lobes lanceolate to triangular, ± unequal, abaxial pair longest. |
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Legumes | (2.6–)2.8–4(–4.5) mm, glabrate or distally pilose, with ± prominent, elongated to circular glands on sides. |
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Seeds | 1.7–2.3 mm. |
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Perennial | herbs, erect to diffusely spreading, glabrous throughout or proximal to inflorescence. |
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Principal | leaves (1.5–)2–6 cm; leaflets 5–9, blades oblong to obovate or narrowly elliptic-oblanceolate, (6–)9–35 mm. |
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Dalea candida |
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Distribution |
North America; n Mexico
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Discussion | Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). Varieties candida and oligophylla were treated as separate species by D. K. Wemple (1970) and are fairly well defined. In regions of overlap, var. oligophylla normally occupies higher, drier sites than var. candida. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 11. | ||||
Parent taxa | Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Dalea | ||||
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Synonyms | Petalostemon candidus | ||||
Name authority | Willdenow: Sp. Pl. 3: 1337. (1802) | ||||
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