Dalea pringlei |
Dalea ornata |
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Pringle's dalea, Pringle's prairie clover |
Blue Mountain prairie-clover, ornate dalea, western prairie clover |
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Stems | (2–)2.5–6(–7) dm, dotted with small, raised glands. |
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Inflorescences | 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. |
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Peduncles | 1–11 cm. |
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Stamens | 5, (7.3–)7.7–12 mm, filaments distinct to (3.6–)4.7–7.6 mm, anthers 1–1.4 mm. |
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Corollas | 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. |
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Calyces | 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. |
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Legumes | 3–3.5 mm, pilosulous distally and gland-dotted. |
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Seeds | 2–2.4 mm. |
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Perennial | herbs, erect, glabrous proximal to inflorescence. |
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Principal | leaves 2.5–5.5(–6.5) cm; leaflets 5 or 7 (or 9), blades oblanceolate to obovate, 7–22 mm. |
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2n | = 14. |
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Dalea pringlei |
Dalea ornata |
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Phenology | Flowering spring–early summer. | |
Habitat | Rocky, sandy, or clay soils in dry areas, often among sagebrush. | |
Elevation | 100–2000 m. (300–6600 ft.) | |
Distribution |
sw United States; n Mexico
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CA; ID; NV; OR; WA
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Discussion | Varieties 3 (1 in the flora). Two varieties of Dalea pringlei occur in Mexico. Variety multijuga Barneby is found in Chihuahua, Sinaloa, and Sonora, while var. oxyphyllidia Barneby is restricted to the Río Mayo area of Sonora. (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. |
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Synonyms | Petalostemon ornatus | |
Name authority | A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 17: 201. (1882) | (Douglas) Eaton & Wright: Man. Bot. ed. 8, 219. (1840) — (as ornatum) |
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