Dalea pulchra |
Dalea gattingeri |
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Santa Catalina prairie-clover |
Gattinger prairie clover, purpletassels |
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Habit | Shrubs, relatively erect, stiffly-branching, silky- or velvety-pubescent distally. | |
Stems | 5–10 dm, verruculose distally. |
1.5–3.5 dm, usually glabrous or glabrescent at base, pilosulous distally, eglandular or with scattered small glands. |
Inflorescences | spikes, densely flowered, obviously involucrate (proximalmost several whorls of bracts subtending rudimentary buds), 11.5–16 mm diam.; axis not visible, 0.4–0.7 cm; bracts deciduous, interfloral ones sometimes held in place by crowded flowers, 2–6.5 mm. |
spikes, moderately densely flowered, not involucrate, (8–)9–10 mm diam.; axis becoming partially visible, 1.5–7.5 cm; bracts early deciduous or proximals persistent, interfloral ones held in place by crowded flowers, 3–5(–6) mm. |
Peduncles | 0–1 cm. |
0.5–2.5 cm. |
Stamens | 10, 7.5–9 mm, filaments distinct to 1.8–2.8 mm, anthers 0.6–0.7 mm. |
5, 6.3–7.8 mm, filaments distinct to 3.8–5.4 mm, anthers 0.8–1 mm. |
Corollas | bicolored, banner cream, reddish in age, epistemonous petals pink-purple; papilionaceous; banner 6–7.5 mm, blade ovate- or deltate-cordate, 2.8–4.2 × 3.4–4.4 mm; epistemonous petals attached proximal to middle of stamen tube; wings 4.1–5 × 2–2.6 mm; keel connate valvately, blades 5.2–6.8 × 3–3.5 mm. |
rose-purple; not conventionally papilionaceous; banner 5.2–6.2 mm, blade ovate, 2.1–2.6 × (1.6–)2–2.8 mm; epistemonous petals attached at separation of filaments, blades 2.6–3.2 × 0.9–1.3 mm. |
Calyces | asymmetric, recessed opposite banner, (4.5–)4.8–7.2 mm, densely pilose; tube 2.4–3.4 mm, hyaline intervals usually with row of inconspicuous blister glands between ribs (or eglandular), lobes triangular-aristate, spurred laterally near proximal end, unequal, abaxial longest. |
subsymmetric, 4–5 mm, pilose-tomentulose; tube 2–2.5(–2.7) mm, prominently to indistinctly 10-ribbed, ± circular in cross section, with 0 glands between ribs, lobes lanceolate or adaxial pair ovate. |
Legumes | 2.5–3 mm, densely pubescent distally, eglandular. |
2.8–3.3 mm, pilosulous distally and dotted with small glands. |
Seeds | 1.5–1.8 mm. |
2.2 mm. |
Principal | leaves 0.5–1.5 cm; leaflets 5 or 7(or 9), blades obovate to oblanceolate, 1.5–5 mm. |
leaves 2–3.5 cm; leaflets 5 or 7(or 9), blades linear to linear-oblanceolate or linear-elliptic, 8–18 mm. |
Perennial | herbs, diffusely spreading, distally pilosulous on stems. |
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2n | = 14. |
= 14. |
Dalea pulchra |
Dalea gattingeri |
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Phenology | Flowering spring. | Flowering late spring–summer. |
Habitat | Sandy to gravelly or rocky grasslands, open oak, juniper, or pine woodlands, desert scrub. | Cedar glades and barrens, on rocky, calcareous soils. |
Elevation | 900–1400 m. (3000–4600 ft.) | 150–500 m. (500–1600 ft.) |
Distribution |
AZ; NM; Mexico (Chihuahua, Sonora)
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AL; AR; GA; MO; TN
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Discussion | Plants of Dalea pulchra are attractive in flower. The spikes shatter quickly at anthesis; legumes and seeds are seldom seen. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Dalea gattingeri is a narrow habitat specialist that can be locally common in suitable habitat. (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 | Kuhnistera gattingeri, Petalostemon gattingeri | |
Name authority | Gentry: Madroño 10: 227, plate 14. (1950) | (A. Heller) Barneby: Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 27: 274. (1977) |
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