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Dalea sabinalis

sabinal prairie clover
Stems

2.5–5(–6) dm, sparsely gland-dotted.
Inflorescences

spikes, relatively loosely flowered, not involucrate, 6.5–8 mm diam.;

axis usually partially visible at anthesis, 4–9 cm;

bracts early deciduous, 3 mm.
Peduncles

6–12 cm.
Stamens

5, 5–6 mm, filaments distinct to 2.5–3 mm, anthers 0.6 mm.
Corollas

pink to rose;

not conventionally papilionaceous;

banner 5.4 mm, blade deltate-obcordate, 2.5 × 3 mm; epistemonous petals attached at separation of filaments, blades 3 × 1.5 mm.
Calyces

asymmetric, recessed opposite banner, 3–3.3 mm, glabrous, lobes sometimes pilosulous;

tube 2.3–2.5 mm, greenish intervals between ribs eglandular, lobes subulate or adaxial pair triangular-ovate.
Legumes

3 mm, glabrate, margins ± short-ciliate distally, minutely gland-dotted.
Seeds

1.5–2.1 mm.
Perennial

herbs, erect, glabrous proximal to inflorescences.
Principal

leaves 2–4 cm;

leaflets 11–17, blades linear-oblanceolate, 7–15 mm.

Dalea sabinalis
Phenology Flowering spring.
Habitat Open slopes, limestone soils.
Elevation 500–600 m. (1600–2000 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
TX
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Dalea sabinalis was first found at the entrance to Sabinal Canyon in Bandera County, but collections are known also from nearby Uvalde and Val Verde counties; it has not been collected since the 1950s, and no extant populations are known.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Dalea
Sibling taxa
D. albiflora, D. aurea, D. bartonii, D. bicolor, D. brachystachys, D. cahaba, D. candida, D. carnea, D. carthagenensis, D. compacta, D. cylindriceps, D. emarginata, D. enneandra, D. exigua, D. exserta, D. feayi, D. filiformis, D. flavescens, D. foliosa, D. formosa, D. frutescens, D. gattingeri, D. grayi, D. greggii, D. hallii, D. jamesii, D. lachnostachys, D. lanata, D. laniceps, D. lasiathera, D. leporina, D. lumholtzii, D. mollis, D. mollissima, D. multiflora, D. nana, D. neomexicana, D. obovata, D. ornata, D. phleoides, D. pinnata, D. pogonathera, D. polygonoides, D. pringlei, D. pulchra, D. purpurea, D. reverchonii, D. scandens, D. scariosa, D. searlsiae, D. tentaculoides, D. tenuifolia, D. tenuis, D. urceolata, D. versicolor, D. villosa, D. wrightii
Synonyms Petalostemon sabinalis
Name authority (S. Watson) Shinners: Field & Lab. 17: 83. (1949)
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