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woollyhead prairie clover
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low prairie clover
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0.3–0.8 dm, eglandular. |
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spikes, densely flowered, not obviously involucrate, 15–20 mm diam.; axis not visible, 0.7–3(–3.5) cm; bracts persistent through anthesis, 6–9 mm. |
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absent. |
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10, 10–11 mm, filaments distinct to 1.2–1.6 mm, anthers 0.5–0.6 mm. |
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clear yellow, reddish brown in age; papilionaceous; banner 7–8.2 mm, blade reniform, 1.8–2.4 × 1.9–2.8 mm; epistemonous petals attached distal to middle of stamen tube; wings 2.4–2.7 × 1.2–1.4 mm; keel connate valvately, blades 3.2–4 × 1.6–2 mm. |
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somewhat asymmetric, slightly recessed opposite banner, 7.8–8.7 mm, densely pilose; tube 2.5–2.9 mm, with 2 or 3 small glands between ribs, lobes triangular-aristate, becoming plumose. |
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± 2.5 mm, distally with 2 rows of ascending hairs on either side of a glabrescent row, eglandular. |
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2.3–3 mm. |
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herbs, erect to ascending, silvery-pilose. |
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leaves (1–)1.5–3.5 cm; leaflets 3, blades rhombic-ovate to elliptic-oblanceolate, 5–18 mm, surfaces apparently eglandular. |
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= 14. |
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| Flowering summer–fall. |
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| Rocky slopes and hills, deserts, grasslands, open pine woods. |
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| 900–2500 m. (3000–8200 ft.) |
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TX; Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Zacatecas) |
Mexico; Central America; Texas; West Indies |
In the flora area, Dalea laniceps is limited to the southeastern area of trans-Pecos Texas. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Varieties 5 (1 in the flora). In addition to var. paucifolia, R. C. Barneby (1977c) recognized four varieties from Mexico to the Caribbean region and Central America. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
| FNA vol. 11. |
FNA vol. 11. |
| Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Dalea |
Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Dalea |
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. 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. scariosa, D. searlsiae, D. tentaculoides, D. tenuifolia, D. tenuis, D. urceolata, D. versicolor, D. villosa, D. wrightii |
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Psoralea scandens |
| Barneby: SouthW. Naturalist 15: 390. (1971) |
(Miller) R. T. Clausen: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 73: 83. (1946) |
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