Dalea candida
Dalea lanata
white prairie-clover
woolly prairie clover
2.5–10 dm, minutely gland-dotted or eglandular.
(2.5–)3–7 dm, eglandular or sparsely glandular-punctate or -verruculose.
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, loosely flowered, not involucrate, 6–8 mm diam.;
axis visible, (1–)1.5–7.5(–9) cm;
bracts persistent, 2.6–4 mm.
0–5.5(–7.5) cm.
0.4–4 cm.
5, (5–)5.2–7.6 mm, filaments distinct to 2.5–4.5 mm, anthers 0.7–1.2 mm.
(5–)8–10 (sometimes only 5 functional), 6.5–8.5 mm, filaments distinct to 1.9–2.9 mm, anthers 0.4–0.6 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.
red-violet to magenta or purple;
not conventionally papilionaceous;
banner 2.8–4.3 mm, blade ovate-cordate, ± peltate, ± cucullate, 1.8–3.1 × 1.8–2.8 mm; epistemonous petals attached near middle of stamen tube, blades 2–3.8 × 1.5–2.2 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.
subsymmetric, 3.3–4.5(–4.8) mm, villosulous throughout or on lobes;
tube 1.8–2.5 mm, with 1–4 glands between ribs, lobes triangular to lanceolate, ovate-acuminate, or -apiculate.
(2.6–)2.8–4(–4.5) mm, glabrate or distally pilose, with ± prominent, elongated to circular glands on sides.
2.5–3.1 mm, pilosulous distally and dotted with small glands.
1.7–2.3 mm.
1.8–1.3 mm.
herbs, erect to diffusely spreading, glabrous throughout or proximal to inflorescence.
herbs, prostrate, densely to sparsely pilosulous or glabrous.
leaves (1.5–)2–6 cm;
leaflets 5–9, blades oblong to obovate or narrowly elliptic-oblanceolate, (6–)9–35 mm.
leaves 1–3 cm;
leaflets 9–15, blades obovate to broadly oblanceolate, 3–10(–12) mm.
Dalea candida
Dalea lanata
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.)
Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).
The geographical ranges of the two varieties show little overlap, with a separation at roughly the Pecos River.
(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 |
1. Calyces: tube and lobes villosulous. | var. lanata |
1. Calyces: tube glabrous, lobes usually villosulous. | var. terminalis |
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