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Parry dalea, Parry's false prairie-clover

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

Phenology Flowering late winter–spring (fall).
Habitat Rocky or sandy desert washes, alluvial fans.
Elevation 10–1000 m. (0–3300 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
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
M. calycosa, M. diffusa, M. orcuttii
Synonyms Dalea parryi
Name authority (Torrey & A. Gray) Barneby: Mem. New York Bot Gard. 27: 68. (1977)
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