Dalea leporina |
Dalea ornata |
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fox-tail prairie-clover, foxtail dalea, hare's-foot dalea |
Blue Mountain prairie-clover, ornate dalea, western prairie clover |
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Stems | (1.5–)2.5–10(–15) dm, ± sparsely glandular-verruculose distally. |
(2–)2.5–6(–7) dm, dotted with small, raised glands. |
Inflorescences | spikes, relatively densely flowered, not involucrate, 8–12(–15) mm diam.; axis usually not visible, (0.8–)1.5–7(–10) cm; bracts deciduous by anthesis, 2.5–7 mm. |
spikes, densely flowered, not involucrate, 13–16 mm diam.; axis not visible, (1–)1.5–5 cm; bracts deciduous, interfloral ones often held in place by crowded flowers, (3–)4–7.5(–8.5) mm. |
Peduncles | (1.5–)3–12(–15) cm. |
1–11 cm. |
Stamens | 9 or 10, 5–6.8 mm, filaments distinct to 0.6–1 mm, anthers 0.2–0.4 mm. |
5, (7.3–)7.7–12 mm, filaments distinct to (3.6–)4.7–7.6 mm, anthers 1–1.4 mm. |
Corollas | white to purple or blue; not conventionally papilionaceous; banner (3.4–)4.4–6 mm, blade ovate to oblong-elliptic, (1.7–)2–3.7 × 1.2–2.4 mm; epistemonous petals attached near or distal to middle of stamen tube, blades (1.3–)1.6–2.4 × (0.4–)0.5–1 mm, laterals often slightly narrower than abaxials. |
usually rose-purple to lilac, rarely white; not conventionally papilionaceous; banner 7–9 mm, blade ovate to oblong-ovate, 3.3–4.5 × (2–)2.3–4 mm; epistemonous petals attached at separation of filaments, blades (3.3–)3.5–5 × 1.4–2 mm. |
Calyces | asymmetric, recessed opposite banner, 3–5.2 mm, sparsely to densely pilose or pilosulous; tube (1.7–)2–2.5(–2.8) mm, with (1 or)2 irregular rows of 2–6 small glands between ribs, sometimes merging into fewer, larger glands, lobes ovate-triangular to lanceolate-acuminate. |
subsymmetric, (3.6–)3.9–6.3(–6.7) mm, pilose throughout or distally; tube (2.4–)2.7–3.6(–3.8) mm, with 2–9 small glands between ribs, lobes lanceolate to ovate. |
Legumes | 1.4–3 mm, pilosulous distally and, sometimes, glandular-punctate. |
3–3.5 mm, pilosulous distally and gland-dotted. |
Seeds | 1.7–2.4 mm. |
2–2.4 mm. |
Annual | herbs, erect, glabrous proximal to inflorescences. |
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Principal | leaves 2–9.5 cm; leaflets (17–)21–35(–49), blades oblanceolate to obovate, (2–)3–12 mm. |
leaves 2.5–5.5(–6.5) cm; leaflets 5 or 7 (or 9), blades oblanceolate to obovate, 7–22 mm. |
Perennial | herbs, erect, glabrous proximal to inflorescence. |
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2n | = 14. |
= 14. |
Dalea leporina |
Dalea ornata |
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Phenology | Flowering late summer–early winter. | Flowering spring–early summer. |
Habitat | Disturbed, open, moist to dry ground. | Rocky, sandy, or clay soils in dry areas, often among sagebrush. |
Elevation | 200–2600 m. (700–8500 ft.) | 100–2000 m. (300–6600 ft.) |
Distribution |
AL; AZ; CO; IA; IL; IN; KS; MA; MI; MN; MO; ND; NE; NM; OH; PA; SD; TN; TX; VA; WI; Mexico; Central America; South America
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CA; ID; NV; OR; WA
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Discussion | Dalea leporina has the broadest range of any member of Dalea, from the interior of the United States and Mexico to Costa Rica, and is disjunct in the Andes Mountains of South America. It varies in some characters, most of which were regarded by R. C. Barneby (1977c) as trivial or not taxonomically useful. It has been found on occasion as a weed far east of its range, for example, in Massachusetts (D. E. Snyder 1950). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Dalea ornata is nearly endemic to the Columbia-Snake river basin. In California, the species is known only from the Shaffer Mountain region in Lassen County. (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 | ||
Synonyms | Psoralea leporina, D. alopecuroides, Parosela alopecuroides | Petalostemon ornatus |
Name authority | (Aiton) Bullock: Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1939: 196. (1939) | (Douglas) Eaton & Wright: Man. Bot. ed. 8, 219. (1840) — (as ornatum) |
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