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Plant Characteristics

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Shrub
Leaf Arrangement: Alternate
Fruit Type: Legume
Size Notes: To about 2 m.
Leaf: "Leaf-spurs less than 1 mm long; stipules narrowly triangular-subulate, firm, 0.6-1.5 mm long, often puberulent; intrapetlolular glands 2, variable in size; post-petiolular glands prominent; leaves dimorphic, the primary cauline ones drought-deciduous, sometimes already fallen by anthesis, shortly petioled or subsessile, 1.5-7 cm long, with narrowly margined rachis and (7) 9-17, more rarely up to 25 obovate, broadly elliptic, ovate-oblong, or oblong-elliptic, obtuse or emarginate, sometimes gland-mucronate, flat leaflets 4-18 (20) mm long, the leaves of axillary spurs and short-shoots small, with fewer and often smaller leaflets." (bibref: 1812).
Flower: "Spikes numerous, usually both pedunculate and sessile, sometimes all sessile, the leaf-opposed peduncles produced early in the season terminal to primary divisions of the panicle, up to 1-3.5 cm long, the sessile spikes mostly terminal to axillary, often greatly condensed short-shoots, the whole inflorescence either loosely cymose-paniculate or virgate-spiciform; spikes either loose, the flowers falling into about 3 ranks when pressed, or remaining dense and capitate (but not conelike), (3) 5-30-flowered, the villosulous axis becoming 2-20 (30) mm long; bracts tardily deciduous, ovate-acuminate or -caudate, clasping the base of calyx, 2.3-6.5 mm long, firm, dorsally gross-glandular and either villosulous or medially glabrescent; calyx mostly 5-8.8 mm, in South American forms sometimes only 3.8-6 mm long, villosulous from base upward or the tube glabrescent, the teeth always plumose-plumulose with finally spreading hairs up to 0.6-1.1 mm long, the tube (measured to a dorsal sinus) 2-3.4 mm long, its orifice oblique but not recessed abruptly behind barmer, the ribs prominent, the intercostal membranes charged with 2-8 small distinct, either prominent and blisterlike or immersed and externally invisible glands, the triangular-aristate, straight or shghtiy sigmoid, gland-spurred teeth erect or eventually stellate, subequal in length, the dorsal one (1.5) 2.2-5.6 mm long, in North America always and in South America usually as long or much longer than tube; petals greenish-white or -cream at early anthesis, soon fading dull brownish-purple or maroon, the epistemonous ones perched well below middle of androecium, all (or all but wings) charged with a prominent subapical gland, the eye of the banner usually gland-sprinkled; banner 3.1-6.4 mm long, the claw 1.4- 2.8 mm, the deltate-cordate, more or less hooded blade 1.1-5.l mm long, 1.7-3.7 mm wide, recessed at base into an at least shallow cornet; wings 3.3-5.3 mm long, the claw (0.9) 1-1.6 mm, the obliquely ovate-oblong blade 2.3-4.2 mm long, 1.2-2 mm wide; keel (4) 4.2-8.1 mm long, the claws (1) 1.4-3.2 mm, the obhquely ovate or half-obovate blades 2.3-5.7 mm long, 1.4-3.2 mm wide; androecium 10-merous, 5.2-9 mm long, the filaments cleft into a short tassel, the connective prominently gland-tipped." (bibref: 1812).
Fruit: "Pod deltate or triangular-obovate in profile, 2.3-2.7 mm long, the ventral suture straight or notched at the pore, the style terminal or at the comer, the prow subfiliform, the valves hyaline in lower half, thinly papery, densely gland-sprinkled and villosulous distally." (bibref: 1812).

Bloom Information

Bloom Color: White , Green , Purple , Brown
Bloom Time: Jan , Feb , Mar , Apr , May , Nov , Dec
Bloom Notes: "Small greenish-creamy flowers early fading dull purple or brownish." (bibref: 1812).

Distribution

USA: FL , MD
Native Distribution: Peru, Ecuador, Columbia, Central America, Mexico, West Indies, and Florida." (bibref: 1812).
Native Habitat: "Pine rocklands, edges of rockland hammocks, coastal uplands, marl prairie." (webref: 42).

Bibliography

Bibref 1812 - Daleae imagines : an illustrated revision of Errazurizia Philippi, Psorothamnus Rydberg, Marina Leibmann, and Dalea Lucanus emend. Barneby, including all species of Leguminosae tribe Amorpheae Borissova ever referred to Dalea (1977) Barneby, Rupert C.

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Additional resources

USDA: Find Dalea carthagenensis in USDA Plants
FNA: Find Dalea carthagenensis in the Flora of North America (if available)
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