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low prairie clover
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pussyfoot
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to 5.5 dm, sparsely dotted with small, raised glands. |
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spikes, densely flowered, not involucrate, (12–)14–20 mm diam.; axis not visible, 3.5–11 cm; bracts early deciduous, interfloral ones often held in place by crowded flowers, 5.5–11 mm. |
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0–3(–10) cm. |
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5, (4.5–)5–6.6 mm, filaments distinct to 1–2.2 mm, anthers 0.6–0.8 mm. |
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white, ochroleucous in drying; not conventionally papilionaceous; banner (3.5–)4–7 mm, blade ovate-oblong, (2–)2.2–2.9(–3.1) × 1.2–2 mm; epistemonous petals attached at or just proximal to separation of filaments, blades 2–3.2 × 0.5–0.9 mm. |
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± asymmetric, slightly recessed opposite banner, 3.3–5.8 mm, pilose; tube (1.3–)1.4–2.1 mm, with 1 or 2 small glands between ribs, lobes triangular-aristate. |
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2.7–3 mm, pilosulous distally, eglandular. |
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1.7 mm. |
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herbs, short-lived, erect, ± lanate-pilose. |
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leaves (2–)2.5–5 cm; leaflets 7–11, blades obovate, (8–)10–16 mm, surfaces eglandular. |
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Flowering spring (fall–early winter). |
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Sandy, open ground on and near Gulf Coastal Plain. |
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0–400 m. (0–1300 ft.) |
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Mexico; Central America; Texas; West Indies |
TX |
Varieties 5 (1 in the flora). In addition to var. paucifolia, R. C. Barneby (1977c) recognized four varieties from Mexico to the Caribbean region and Central America. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Dalea obovata occurs in the southern coastal plain of Texas as far north and west as Frio, Medina, and Travis counties. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
| FNA vol. 11. |
FNA vol. 11. |
| Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Dalea |
Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Dalea |
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. sabinalis, D. scariosa, D. searlsiae, D. tentaculoides, D. tenuifolia, D. tenuis, D. urceolata, D. versicolor, D. villosa, D. wrightii |
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. ornata, D. phleoides, D. pinnata, D. pogonathera, D. polygonoides, D. pringlei, D. pulchra, D. purpurea, D. reverchonii, D. sabinalis, D. scandens, D. scariosa, D. searlsiae, D. tentaculoides, D. tenuifolia, D. tenuis, D. urceolata, D. versicolor, D. villosa, D. wrightii |
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| Psoralea scandens |
Petalostemon obovatus |
| (Miller) R. T. Clausen: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 73: 83. (1946) |
(Torrey & A. Gray) Shinners: Field & Lab. 17: 84. (1949) |
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