Dalea foliosa |
Dalea greggii |
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leafy prairie-clover |
Gregg's dalea, Gregg's prairie clover |
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Habit | Subshrubs, horizontal-spreading, mat-forming, at least young foliage silky-pilosulous. | |
Stems | 3–8 dm, eglandular. |
procumbent or arching, often rooting along stems, 3–5(–20+) dm, eglandular or glandular-verruculose distally. |
Inflorescences | spikes, densely flowered, not involucrate, 8–10 mm diam.; axis not visible, 1.5–4.5 cm; bracts persistent through anthesis, 4.8–5.4 mm. |
spikes, relatively densely flowered, not involucrate, 8–11 mm diam.; axis usually not visible, 0.4–3(–5.5) cm; bracts persistent, 2–4 mm. |
Peduncles | 0–2 cm. |
0–4(–6) cm. |
Stamens | 5, 5.4–7.2 mm, filaments distinct to 2.7–3.7 mm, anthers 0.6–0.9 mm. |
10, 5.5–7.5 mm, filaments distinct to 1.7–2.4 mm, anthers 0.5–0.7 mm. |
Corollas | lavender-purple; not conventionally papilionaceous; banner 5.2–6 mm, blade ovate to suborbiculate, 2.1–2.5 × 2.6–3.2 mm; epistemonous petals attached at separation of filaments, blades 2.7–3 × 0.8–1 mm. |
bicolored, banner cream to pale yellow, reddish in age, epistemonous petals pink to pink-purple; papilionaceous; banner 4.4–6.2 mm, blade deltate-cordate, 2.6–3.5 × 3.2–4.3 mm, proximal lobes connate, forming obconic pit; epistemonous petals attached proximal to middle of stamen tube; wings 3.2–4.6 × 1.6–2.4 mm; keel connate valvately, blades 4–4.8(–5.3) × 2.2–3.3 mm. |
Calyces | subsymmetric, 3.8–4.4 mm, glabrous or lobes sometimes pilosulous; tube 2.4–2.7 mm, with 0 glands between ribs, lobes triangular-lanceolate or adaxial pair ovate-triangular. |
subsymmetric, (4–)4.2–6 mm, silky-pilosulous; tube (2–)2.2–2.8(–3) mm, usually with 3–8(–10) blister glands between ribs (scattered or in a row), lobes triangular-acuminate to lanceolate or aristate, unequal, abaxial longest. |
Legumes | 2.5–3 mm, glabrous, dotted with small glands distally. |
2.1–2.8 mm, pilosulous and gland-dotted distally. |
Seeds | 1.8–2 mm. |
1.6–2 mm. |
Perennial | herbs, erect, glabrous proximal to inflorescences. |
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Principal | leaves 3–5.5 cm; leaflets 19–29(or 31), blades oblong-oblanceolate to -elliptic, 5–10 mm. |
leaves 0.6–2.5(–3) cm; leaflets 5–9, blades obovate to oblanceolate, 2–7(–9) mm. |
2n | = 14. |
= 14 (Mexico). |
Dalea foliosa |
Dalea greggii |
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Phenology | Flowering late summer–fall. | Flowering spring, fall, (year-round). |
Habitat | Limestone glades, prairie remnants. | Rocky slopes, deserts, open woodlands, limestone soils. |
Elevation | 100–300 m. (300–1000 ft.) | 600–1400 m. (2000–4600 ft.) |
Distribution |
AL; IL; TN
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AZ; NM; TX; Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas, south as far as Oaxaca)
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Discussion | Dalea foliosa is rare and in 1991 was designated federally as endangered. At that time, there were 14 known populations, only four of which had state or Nature Conservancy protection. The species is in the Center for Plant Conservation’s National Collection of Endangered Plants. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Dalea greggii is cultivated as a ground cover and for erosion control in xeriscaping. In Texas, the species is known from the eastern trans-Pecos and Big Bend regions. (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 |
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Synonyms | Petalostemon foliosus | |
Name authority | (A. Gray) Barneby: Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 27: 245. (1977) | A. Gray: Pl. Nov. Thurb., 314. (1854) |
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