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Dalea feayi

Dalea tentaculoides

Feay's prairie clover

gentry's indigobush
Habit Shrubs or subshrubs, relatively erect, sparsely pilosulous or glabrous proximal to inflorescences.
Stems

3–7 dm, with scattered, small glands.

3–6(–12) dm, glandular-tuberculate distally.
Inflorescences

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.

spikes, relatively densely flowered, not involucrate, 11–15 mm diam.;

axis not to partially visible, 1–2(–2.5) cm;

bracts persistent or deciduous, (2.5–)3–5.5 mm.
Peduncles

0–8 cm.

(0–)0.2–2.2 cm.
Stamens

5, 6.5–9.2 mm, filaments distinct to 3.5–5 mm, anthers 0.8 mm.

10, 8–9.5 mm, filaments distinct to 2.6–3.5 mm, anthers 0.7–1 mm.
Corollas

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.

bicolored, banner whitish, reddish in age, epistemonous petals rose-purple; papilionaceous;

banner 6.2–6.7 mm, blade flabellate, 3–3.5 × 3.9–4.2 mm; epistemonous petals attached proximal to middle of stamen tube;

wings 4.9–5.8 × 2.2–3 mm;

keel connate valvately, blades 5–6.2 × 3.2–4.4 mm.
Calyces

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.

asymmetric, recessed opposite banner, 5.2–7.8 mm, sparsely pilosulous;

tube 2.5–3.1 mm, with 0–2 glands between ribs, lobes lanceolate-acuminate, each with several elongated, pricklelike glands (gland spurs).
Legumes

3–3.3 mm, glabrous, ± glandular.

3 mm, pilosulous distally, eglandular.
Seeds

(1.5–)2–2.2 mm.

1.5 mm.
Perennial

herbs, erect, becoming somewhat shrubby, glabrous proximal to inflorescences.

Principal

leaves 1.5–3.5 cm;

leaflets 7 or 9, blades involute, linear, (6–)7–12(–14) mm.

leaves 3–6 cm;

leaflets 19–35, blades oblong-elliptic to obovate, 2.5–8 mm.
2n

= 14.

Dalea feayi

Dalea tentaculoides
Phenology Flowering summer–fall (year-round). Flowering spring (fall).
Habitat Sandy pine woods, on white sand. Rocks in canyons, rocky volcanic slopes in desert mountains.
Elevation 0–30 m. (0–100 ft.) 900–2200 m. (3000–7200 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
FL; GA
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from FNA
AZ; Mexico (Sonora)
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Discussion

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.)

Dalea tentaculoides occurs in Santa Cruz and Pima counties. It is in the Center for Plant Conservation’s National Collection of Endangered Plants.

(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
Sibling taxa
D. albiflora, D. aurea, D. bartonii, D. bicolor, D. brachystachys, D. cahaba, D. candida, D. carnea, D. carthagenensis, D. compacta, D. cylindriceps, D. emarginata, D. enneandra, D. exigua, D. exserta, D. filiformis, D. flavescens, D. foliosa, D. formosa, D. frutescens, D. gattingeri, D. grayi, D. greggii, D. hallii, D. jamesii, D. lachnostachys, D. lanata, D. laniceps, D. lasiathera, D. leporina, D. lumholtzii, D. mollis, D. mollissima, D. multiflora, D. nana, D. neomexicana, D. obovata, D. ornata, D. phleoides, D. pinnata, D. pogonathera, D. polygonoides, D. pringlei, D. pulchra, D. purpurea, D. reverchonii, D. sabinalis, D. scandens, D. scariosa, D. searlsiae, D. tentaculoides, D. tenuifolia, D. tenuis, D. urceolata, D. versicolor, D. villosa, D. wrightii
D. albiflora, D. aurea, D. bartonii, D. bicolor, D. brachystachys, D. cahaba, D. candida, D. carnea, D. carthagenensis, D. compacta, D. cylindriceps, D. emarginata, D. enneandra, D. exigua, D. exserta, D. feayi, D. filiformis, D. flavescens, D. foliosa, D. formosa, D. frutescens, D. gattingeri, D. grayi, D. greggii, D. hallii, D. jamesii, D. lachnostachys, D. lanata, D. laniceps, D. lasiathera, D. leporina, D. lumholtzii, D. mollis, D. mollissima, D. multiflora, D. nana, D. neomexicana, D. obovata, D. ornata, D. phleoides, D. pinnata, D. pogonathera, D. polygonoides, D. pringlei, D. pulchra, D. purpurea, D. reverchonii, D. sabinalis, D. scandens, D. scariosa, D. searlsiae, D. tenuifolia, D. tenuis, D. urceolata, D. versicolor, D. villosa, D. wrightii
Synonyms Petalostemon feayi
Name authority (Chapman) Barneby: Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 27: 257. (1977) Gentry: Madroño 10: 238, plates 18, 19. (1950)
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