Dalea pulchra |
Dalea grayi |
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Santa Catalina prairie-clover |
Gray's prairie-clover |
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Habit | Shrubs, relatively erect, stiffly-branching, silky- or velvety-pubescent distally. | |
Stems | 5–10 dm, verruculose distally. |
(3–)3.5–7(–9) dm, eglandular or sparsely gland-dotted. |
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, densely flowered, not involucrate, 7–9 mm diam.; axis not visible, (0.4–)0.7–5.5(–7) cm; bracts persistent, (2.2–)2.5–4.5 mm. |
Peduncles | 0–1 cm. |
0.5–5(–10) cm. |
Stamens | 10, 7.5–9 mm, filaments distinct to 1.8–2.8 mm, anthers 0.6–0.7 mm. |
10, 5.5–7 mm, filaments distinct to 2.7–4 mm, anthers 0.5–0.7 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. |
white or whitish, banner reddish or purplish in age; not conventionally papilionaceous; banner plane, 4–5.7 mm, blade triangular-cordate to rhombic-ovate, not peltate, 1.6–2.5 × 2–2.4 mm; epistemonous petals attached high on stamen tube, just proximal to separation of filaments, blades 2.2–3.1 × 0.8–1.4 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, 3.6–4.8(–5.2) mm, silky-pilosulous; tube 2–2.7 mm, with 3–6 glands between ribs, lobes triangular-acuminate to -aristate. |
Legumes | 2.5–3 mm, densely pubescent distally, eglandular. |
2.2–2.5 mm, villosulous distally and dotted with small glands. |
Seeds | 1.5–1.8 mm. |
1.6 mm. |
Principal | leaves 0.5–1.5 cm; leaflets 5 or 7(or 9), blades obovate to oblanceolate, 1.5–5 mm. |
leaves 1–5 cm; leaflets (11–)17–43, blades elliptic-oblanceolate to narrowly obovate, 1–4.5(–5.5) mm. |
Perennial | herbs, erect, glabrous proximal to inflorescences. |
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2n | = 14. |
= 14. |
Dalea pulchra |
Dalea grayi |
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Phenology | Flowering spring. | Flowering fall (spring–summer). |
Habitat | Sandy to gravelly or rocky grasslands, open oak, juniper, or pine woodlands, desert scrub. | Rocky slopes, washes, canyons, open pine or oak woodlands. |
Elevation | 900–1400 m. (3000–4600 ft.) | 700–2200 m. (2300–7200 ft.) |
Distribution |
AZ; NM; Mexico (Chihuahua, Sonora)
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AZ; NM; Mexico (Chihuahua, Durango, Sinaloa, Sonora)
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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 grayi occurs in southeastern Arizona as far northwest as Gila County and far southwestern New Mexico (Grant and Hidalgo counties). (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 |
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Synonyms | Parosela grayi | |
Name authority | Gentry: Madroño 10: 227, plate 14. (1950) | (Vail) L. O. Williams: Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 23: 450. (1936) |
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