Dalea pulchra |
Dalea lachnostachys |
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Santa Catalina prairie-clover |
glandleaf prairie clover |
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Habit | Shrubs, relatively erect, stiffly-branching, silky- or velvety-pubescent distally. | |
Stems | 5–10 dm, verruculose distally. |
1.5–4 dm, black-warty. |
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. |
racemes, spikelike, relatively densely flowered, not involucrate, (15–)16–19(–20) mm diam.; axis usually not visible, 2.5–5 cm; bracts deciduous, 7–11 mm. |
Peduncles | 0–1 cm. |
1–8(–11) cm. |
Stamens | 10, 7.5–9 mm, filaments distinct to 1.8–2.8 mm, anthers 0.6–0.7 mm. |
10, 6.6–8.7 mm, filaments distinct to 2.3–2.9 mm, anthers (0.5–)0.6–0.8 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. |
dark blue or blue-violet; papilionaceous; banner 5.7–7.6 mm, blade shallowly cordate, (3.5–)3.8–4.8 × 2.2–3.8 mm; epistemonous petals attached well proximal to middle of stamen tube; wings 3.7–5 × 1.3–1.8 mm; keel connate by overlapping margins, blades (3.8–)4–4.7 × 1.7–2.2 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. |
± symmetric, (4.3–)5.8–7.7 mm, pilose; tube 2.6–3.1 mm, with 3 or 4 small glands between ribs, lobes triangular-aristate. |
Legumes | 2.5–3 mm, densely pubescent distally, eglandular. |
(3–)3.3–4 mm, pilosulous distally, eglandular. |
Seeds | 1.5–1.8 mm. |
1.8–2.4 mm. |
Principal | leaves 0.5–1.5 cm; leaflets 5 or 7(or 9), blades obovate to oblanceolate, 1.5–5 mm. |
leaves 3–8(–9.5) cm; leaflets (5 or) 7 or 9 (or 11), blades obovate, (5–)7–17 mm, margins entire or ± crenulate, surfaces glandular-pustulate around margins abaxially. |
Perennial | herbs, erect, ± pilosulous. |
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2n | = 14. |
= 14. |
Dalea pulchra |
Dalea lachnostachys |
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Phenology | Flowering spring. | Flowering late summer–fall. |
Habitat | Sandy to gravelly or rocky grasslands, open oak, juniper, or pine woodlands, desert scrub. | Open deserts, dry grasslands, open woodlands, sometimes on limestone. |
Elevation | 900–1400 m. (3000–4600 ft.) | 1000–1800 m. (3300–5900 ft.) |
Distribution |
AZ; NM; Mexico (Chihuahua, Sonora)
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AZ; NM; TX; Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Sonora) |
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 lachnostachys occurs in southern Arizona, southwestern New Mexico, and trans-Pecos Texas. (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 | ||
Name authority | Gentry: Madroño 10: 227, plate 14. (1950) | A. Gray: Smithsonian Contr. Knowl. 3(5): 46. (1852) |
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