Dalea gattingeri |
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Gattinger prairie clover, purpletassels |
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Stems | 1.5–3.5 dm, usually glabrous or glabrescent at base, pilosulous distally, eglandular or with scattered small glands. |
Inflorescences | spikes, moderately densely flowered, not involucrate, (8–)9–10 mm diam.; axis becoming partially visible, 1.5–7.5 cm; bracts early deciduous or proximals persistent, interfloral ones held in place by crowded flowers, 3–5(–6) mm. |
Peduncles | 0.5–2.5 cm. |
Stamens | 5, 6.3–7.8 mm, filaments distinct to 3.8–5.4 mm, anthers 0.8–1 mm. |
Corollas | rose-purple; not conventionally papilionaceous; banner 5.2–6.2 mm, blade ovate, 2.1–2.6 × (1.6–)2–2.8 mm; epistemonous petals attached at separation of filaments, blades 2.6–3.2 × 0.9–1.3 mm. |
Calyces | subsymmetric, 4–5 mm, pilose-tomentulose; tube 2–2.5(–2.7) mm, prominently to indistinctly 10-ribbed, ± circular in cross section, with 0 glands between ribs, lobes lanceolate or adaxial pair ovate. |
Legumes | 2.8–3.3 mm, pilosulous distally and dotted with small glands. |
Seeds | 2.2 mm. |
Perennial | herbs, diffusely spreading, distally pilosulous on stems. |
Principal | leaves 2–3.5 cm; leaflets 5 or 7(or 9), blades linear to linear-oblanceolate or linear-elliptic, 8–18 mm. |
2n | = 14. |
Dalea gattingeri |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–summer. |
Habitat | Cedar glades and barrens, on rocky, calcareous soils. |
Elevation | 150–500 m. (500–1600 ft.) |
Distribution |
AL; AR; GA; MO; TN
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Discussion | Dalea gattingeri is a narrow habitat specialist that can be locally common in suitable habitat. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. |
Parent taxa | Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Dalea |
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Synonyms | Kuhnistera gattingeri, Petalostemon gattingeri |
Name authority | (A. Heller) Barneby: Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 27: 274. (1977) |
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