Dalea pulchra |
Dalea wrightii |
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Santa Catalina prairie-clover |
Wright's dalea, Wright's prairie-clover |
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Habit | Shrubs, relatively erect, stiffly-branching, silky- or velvety-pubescent distally. | |
Stems | 5–10 dm, verruculose distally. |
0.4–2.6(–3.6) dm, eglandular. |
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, relatively densely flowered, not involucrate, 17–23 mm diam.; axis not to partially visible, (1.5–)2–6 cm; bracts deciduous near anthesis, 6–12 mm. |
Peduncles | 0–1 cm. |
absent or very short. |
Stamens | 10, 7.5–9 mm, filaments distinct to 1.8–2.8 mm, anthers 0.6–0.7 mm. |
10, 10–13 mm, filaments distinct to 1.5 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. |
clear yellow, pinkish or orangish brown in age; papilionaceous; banner 7.8–9.5 mm, blade cordate, 2–3 × 2.4–3.4 mm; epistemonous petals attached distal to middle of stamen tube; wings 2.6–3.4 × 1.8–2.3 mm; keel connate valvately, blades (2.6–)3–4(–4.2) × 1.6–2.2 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. |
somewhat asymmetric, slightly recessed opposite banner, (8.5–)9–12.3 mm, densely pilose; tube (2.5–)2.7–3.5 mm, with 4 glands between ribs, lobes triangular-aristate, becoming plumose. |
Legumes | 2.5–3 mm, densely pubescent distally, eglandular. |
2.8–3.5 mm, distally with 2 rows of ascending hairs on either side of a glabrescent row, eglandular. |
Seeds | 1.5–1.8 mm. |
2–2.8 mm. |
Principal | leaves 0.5–1.5 cm; leaflets 5 or 7(or 9), blades obovate to oblanceolate, 1.5–5 mm. |
leaves 1–3.5 cm; leaflets 5, blades rhombic-ovate to lanceolate, 4–15(–20) mm, surfaces apparently eglandular. |
Perennial | herbs, erect to decumbent or ascending, silky-pilose. |
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2n | = 14. |
= 14. |
Dalea pulchra |
Dalea wrightii |
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Phenology | Flowering spring. | Flowering early spring–fall. |
Habitat | Sandy to gravelly or rocky grasslands, open oak, juniper, or pine woodlands, desert scrub. | Rocky grasslands, desert slopes, on limestone. |
Elevation | 900–1400 m. (3000–4600 ft.) | 500–1800 m. (1600–5900 ft.) |
Distribution |
AZ; NM; Mexico (Chihuahua, Sonora)
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AZ; NM; TX; Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, 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 wrightii occurs in southeastern Arizona, southern 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 |
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Synonyms | D. wrightii var. warnockii | |
Name authority | Gentry: Madroño 10: 227, plate 14. (1950) | A. Gray: Smithsonian Contr. Knowl. 3(5): 49. (1852) |
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