Dalea nana |
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dwarf dalea, dwarf prairie-clover |
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Stems | (0.5–)1–3.5 dm, nearly eglandular. |
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Inflorescences | spikes, densely to loosely flowered, not involucrate, 7–13(–15) mm diam.; axis not to partially visible, 0.5–4(–5) cm; bracts deciduous at anthesis or later, 2.5–5.5 mm. |
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Peduncles | 0–3.5 cm. |
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Stamens | 10, (6–)6.4–10 mm, filaments distinct to 1.1–2.3 mm, anthers 0.4–0.7 mm. |
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Corollas | clear yellow, purplish or brownish in age; papilionaceous; banner (4–)4.4–5.5 mm, blade suborbiculate-cordate to reniform, 1.5–3.2 × (1.5–)2–3.6 mm; epistemonous petals attached near or distal to middle of stamen tube; wings 2.1–3.7 × 0.9–1.8 mm; keel connate valvately, blades 2.9–4.8 × 1.6–2.8 mm. |
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Calyces | subsymmetric, 4.5–6.5(–7.5) mm, densely pilose; tube 1.9–2.7 mm, with 3 or 4 small glands between ribs, lobes triangular-aristate, becoming plumose. |
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Legumes | 2.5–3 mm, distally with 2 rows of ascending hairs on either side of a glabrescent row, eglandular. |
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Seeds | 1.8–2.2 mm. |
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Perennial | herbs, prostrate, diffusely spreading, or erect, silky-pilosulous. |
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Principal | leaves 1–2.5(–3) cm; leaflets (3 or)5(or 7), blades obovate to olanceolate, 3–15 mm, surfaces inconspicuously glandular-punctate abaxially. |
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Dalea nana |
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Distribution |
sw United States; n Mexico
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Discussion | Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). Dalea nana shows extensive variability in a number of features, including habit, height, and bract shape. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 11. | ||||
Parent taxa | Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Dalea | ||||
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Name authority | Torrey ex A. Gray: Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts, n. s. 4: 31. (1849) | ||||
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