Marina parryi |
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Parry dalea, Parry's false prairie-clover |
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Habit | Herbs (becoming suffrutescent), erect, 1.5–7 dm. |
Stems | usually branched, densely glandular-verruculose, strigulose. |
Leaves | 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 | sparsely flowered distally; axis 2–10 cm; bracts 1.5–3(–5.5) mm. |
Peduncles | (0.5–)1–5(–9.5) cm. |
Pedicels | 0.3–0.5 mm. |
Flowers | 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 | 1.6–2 mm. |
Loments | harp-shaped, 1.8–2.4 mm, puberulent, with arcs of glands distally. |
2n | = 20. |
Marina parryi |
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Phenology | Flowering late winter–spring (fall). |
Habitat | Rocky or sandy desert washes, alluvial fans. |
Elevation | 10–1000 m. (0–3300 ft.) |
Distribution |
AZ; CA; NV; Mexico (Baja California, Baja California Sur, Sonora)
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Source | FNA vol. 11. |
Parent taxa | Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Marina |
Sibling taxa | |
Synonyms | Dalea parryi |
Name authority | (Torrey & A. Gray) Barneby: Mem. New York Bot Gard. 27: 68. (1977) |
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