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San Pedro false prairie-clover

Parry dalea, Parry's false prairie-clover

Habit Herbs, decumbent, 0.5–2 dm. Herbs (becoming suffrutescent), erect, 1.5–7 dm.
Stems

branched or simple, eglandular or nearly so, strigulose.

usually branched, densely glandular-verruculose, strigulose.

Leaves

1–3 cm;

leaflets (9 or)11–25, blades obovate to oblong-obovate, 1.5–7 mm, surfaces pubescent, not gland-dotted abaxially.

1.4–4.5(–6) cm;

leaflets (9 or)11–23(–29), blades orbiculate-obcordate to oblong-ovate, 0.5–5(–7) mm, surfaces pubescent, gland-dotted abaxially.

Racemes

moderately densely flowered;

axis (1–)1.5–6.5 cm;

bracts 2.5–4 mm.

sparsely flowered distally;

axis 2–10 cm;

bracts 1.5–3(–5.5) mm.

Peduncles

0.3–3 cm.

(0.5–)1–5(–9.5) cm.

Pedicels

0.3–0.6 mm.

0.3–0.5 mm.

Flowers

nodding;

calyx 5.2–7 mm, hirtellous, tube 1.8–2.5 mm, rib intervals each with ± 5 glands, lobes lanceolate-elliptic, slightly unequal;

corolla bicolored;

banner whitish or pinkish tan, blue or purplish near margin, deltate-cordate to reniform, 3.7–5 mm; epistemonous petals whitish, blue or purplish on margins;

wings obliquely ovate, 3.3–4.2 × 2.1–2.8 mm;

keel broadly ovate or obovate, 4.3–5.8 × 3–3.7 mm;

stamens 7–8 mm;

filaments distinct to 2.5–3 mm;

anthers 0.7–1 mm.

not nodding, usually separated by distinct intervals;

calyx (2.8–)3–4.3(–4.5) mm, loosely strigulose to hirsute, tube 1.6–2(–2.1) mm, rib intervals each with 5 or 6 glands, lobes ovate, unequal;

corolla usually bicolored;

banner whitish with yellowish eye, blue or bluish near margin, deltate-cordate to reniform, 2.8–4 mm; epistemonous petals blue proximally and pale distally, or blue-violet throughout;

wings ovate to oblong-ovate, 2.6–3.8 × 1.4–2 mm;

keel elliptic-obovate, 3.6–4.8 × 2.4–3.2 mm;

stamens (5–)5.5–7 mm;

filaments distinct to 2 mm;

anthers 0.5–0.8 mm.

Seeds

2 mm.

1.6–2 mm.

Loments

obliquely obovoid, 2.6–3 mm, puberulent, with arcs of glands distally.

harp-shaped, 1.8–2.4 mm, puberulent, with arcs of glands distally.

2n

= 20.

Marina calycosa

Marina parryi

Phenology Flowering spring–early summer (late summer–fall). Flowering late winter–spring (fall).
Habitat Rocky or sandy hillsides in oak woodlands, dry grassland. Rocky or sandy desert washes, alluvial fans.
Elevation 1200–2500 m. (3900–8200 ft.) 10–1000 m. (0–3300 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; NM; Mexico (Chihuahua, Nuevo León, Sonora)
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from FNA
AZ; CA; NV; Mexico (Baja California, Baja California Sur, Sonora)
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Discussion

Marina calycosa is similar in habit and overall appearance to Dalea neomexicana, which it overlaps in range and with which it has, sometimes, been confused.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 11. FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Marina Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Marina
Sibling taxa
M. diffusa, M. orcuttii, M. parryi
M. calycosa, M. diffusa, M. orcuttii
Synonyms Dalea calycosa Dalea parryi
Name authority (A. Gray) Barneby: Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 27: 83. (1977) (Torrey & A. Gray) Barneby: Mem. New York Bot Gard. 27: 68. (1977)
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