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purple dalea
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Cartagena prairie clover
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1–3(–3.5) dm, sparsely gland-dotted. |
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spikes, relatively densely flowered, not involucrate, 11–13 mm diam.; axis not to partially visible, 2–6 cm; bracts persistent, (3–)3.5–5.5 mm. |
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1.5–5(–6) cm. |
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10, 8.5–12 mm, filaments distinct to 3.4–4.7 mm, anthers 0.8–1.2 mm. |
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violet-purple, banner with yellowish center; papilionaceous; banner 6.2–7.5 mm, blade broadly ovate, 3.8–4.6 × 4.2–5 mm, proximal lobes connate, forming obconic pit; epistemonous petals attached near or proximal to middle of stamen tube; wings 3.7–4.7 × 2.2–3 mm; keel connate valvately, blades 5.3–6.5 × 2.3–3.7 mm. |
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± asymmetric, opening oblique, 5.3–6.9 mm, silky-pilosulous; tube 3.3–3.9 mm, with 3–5(–16) glands between ribs, lobes triangular-subulate, not plumose. |
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3–3.5 mm, pilosulous distally, eglandular. |
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2.3 mm. |
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herbs, decumbent to ascending, glabrous proximal to inflorescences. |
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leaves (1–)1.5–3 cm; leaflets (3–)7–11, blades linear-oblanceolate to elliptic, 5–12 mm. |
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| Flowering spring (fall). |
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| Rocky hillsides, open oak woods, with mesquite. |
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| 150–1600 m. (500–5200 ft.) |
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TX; Mexico (Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas) |
Mexico; Central America; South America; Florida; West Indies
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Dalea lasiathera is most abundant on the Edwards Plateau with outlying populations in the trans-Pecos region and Wichita County in the Red River valley. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Varieties 9 (1 in the flora). R. C. Barneby (1977c) recognized nine varieties in Dalea carthagenensis, a complex and polymorphic species. The eight varieties found outside the flora area occur in Mexico, West Indies, Central America, and South America. The calyces of D. carthagenensis sometimes have slightly hooked lobes when mature, a feature used to distinguish D. scandens; the two species are allopatric. (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. laniceps, 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. 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. tentaculoides, D. tenuifolia, D. tenuis, D. urceolata, D. versicolor, D. villosa, D. wrightii |
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Psoralea carthagenensis |
| A. Gray: Smithsonian Contr. Knowl. 3(5): 48. (1852) |
(Jacquin) J. F. Macbride: Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. 13(3): 375. (1943) — (as carthaginensis) |
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