Dalea candida |
Dalea pinnata |
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white prairie-clover |
summer farewell |
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Stems | 2.5–10 dm, minutely gland-dotted or eglandular. |
(3–)4.5–9(–10) dm, finely to coarsely glandular-tuberculate proximal to inflorescences. |
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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. |
spikes, densely flowered, appearing capitate, conspicuously involucrate, with several whorls of clearly differentiated sterile bracts proximal to spike, 6–13 mm diam.; axis not visible, 0.6–1.2 cm; bracts deciduous, basal involucral bracts persistent, becoming transitional to foliage leaves, 5–8 mm. |
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Peduncles | 0–5.5(–7.5) cm. |
absent. |
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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. |
5, 8.8–10.8 mm, filaments distinct to 4.2–5.5 mm, anthers 0.6–0.9 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. |
white; not conventionally papilionaceous; banner (5–)5.4–8.6 mm, blade lanceolate to oblong-elliptic, proximally cuneate (subhastate), 2.7–4.3 × 0.6–1.4 mm; epistemonous petals attached at separation of filaments, blades 3–5 × 0.5–1.4 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. |
subsymmetric, slightly recessed opposite banner, 4.5–7.8(–8.2) mm, pilose; tube (1.5–)1.7–2.3(–2.7) mm, with 0 glands between ribs, lobes linear, becoming plumose. |
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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. |
2.5–3 mm, pilosulous distally, eglandular. |
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Seeds | 1.7–2.3 mm. |
1.7 mm. |
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Perennial | herbs, erect to diffusely spreading, glabrous throughout or proximal to inflorescence. |
herbs, erect, glabrous proximal to inflorescences. |
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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. |
leaves 1–2.5 cm; leaflets 3–11(or 13), blades linear or elliptic-oblanceolate, 5–11 mm. |
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Dalea candida |
Dalea pinnata |
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Distribution |
North America; n Mexico
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se United States
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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.) |
Varieties 3 (3 in the flora). Dalea pinnata, with its headlike spikes and conspicuous involucres, resembles a member of the Asteraceae. This resemblance is heightened after the petals drop because the slender, plumose calyx-lobes begin to resemble a pappus. The varieties of Dalea pinnata have limited geographical overlap and var. pinnata is the most widespread. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 11. | FNA vol. 11. | ||||||||||||
Parent taxa | Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Dalea | Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Dalea | ||||||||||||
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Synonyms | Petalostemon candidus | Kuhnia pinnata, Kuhnistera pinnata, Petalostemon pinnatus | ||||||||||||
Name authority | Willdenow: Sp. Pl. 3: 1337. (1802) | (J. F. Gmelin) Barneby: Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 27: 278. 1977 · Summer-farewell | ||||||||||||
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