Dalea candida
Dalea feayi
white prairie-clover
Feay's prairie clover
2.5–10 dm, minutely gland-dotted or eglandular.
3–7 dm, with scattered, small glands.
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.
spikes, densely flowered, not involucrate, 7–9 mm diam.;
axis not visible, 0.6–1.1 cm;
bracts deciduous with fruit or proximal ones persistent, 0.8–2 mm.
0–5.5(–7.5) cm.
0–8 cm.
5, (5–)5.2–7.6 mm, filaments distinct to 2.5–4.5 mm, anthers 0.7–1.2 mm.
5, 6.5–9.2 mm, filaments distinct to 3.5–5 mm, anthers 0.8 mm.
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.
usually pink to lavender, rarely white;
not conventionally papilionaceous;
banner 4.4–5.2 mm, blade broadly ovate, 2.1–2.6 × 1.8–2.5 mm; epistemonous petals attached at separation of filaments, blades 2.6–3.5 × 0.9–1.2 mm.
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.
asymmetric, deeply recessed opposite banner, opening oblique, 3.2–4.4 mm, glabrous;
tube 2.5–3.4 mm, with 1–3 blister glands between ribs, lobes subulate or adaxial pair ovate-subulate.
(2.6–)2.8–4(–4.5) mm, glabrate or distally pilose, with ± prominent, elongated to circular glands on sides.
3–3.3 mm, glabrous, ± glandular.
1.7–2.3 mm.
(1.5–)2–2.2 mm.
herbs, erect to diffusely spreading, glabrous throughout or proximal to inflorescence.
herbs, erect, becoming somewhat shrubby, glabrous proximal to inflorescences.
leaves (1.5–)2–6 cm;
leaflets 5–9, blades oblong to obovate or narrowly elliptic-oblanceolate, (6–)9–35 mm.
leaves 1.5–3.5 cm;
leaflets 7 or 9, blades involute, linear, (6–)7–12(–14) mm.
= 14.
Dalea candida
Dalea feayi
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.)
Dalea feayi occurs in xeric soils and generally does not grow in the same habitats as D. carnea. In Florida, the species is frequent in the peninsula and central panhandle regions.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
1. Spike axis not visible; calyx tube glabrous. | var. candida |
1. Spike axis partially visible, especially in fruit; calyx tube usually pubescent, sometimes glabrous. | var. oligophylla |
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