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Dalea scandens var. paucifolia

Dalea scandens (Mill.) R.T. Clausen var. paucifolia (J.M. Coult.) Barneby

Low Prairie Clover

Fabaceae (Pea family)

Synonym(s): Dalea thyrsiflora

USDA Symbol: DASCP

USDA Native Status: L48 (N)

"Essentially like D. carthagenensis, up to 15 dm tall, ordinarlly villosulous throughout, exceptionally glabrous to the inflorescence, the leaflets bicolored, green above, pallid or subglaucescent beneath." (bibref: 1812).

"Around the Gulf from Corpus Christi, Texas, into Veracruz the calyx-tube of D. s. var. pauciflora is commonly glabrous, but not consistently so; in Yucatan and Cuba it is thinly pilose. In Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon the spikes are often curved over at tip, appearing wilted, but apparently not so elsewhere. On the Gulf Coast Plain in northeastern Mexico the species is extremely common and locally abundant, especially in wasteland around villages, in disturbed savanna, and second-growth brush, forming in places an almost continuous undergrowth." (bibref: 1812).

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Plant Characteristics

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb , Subshrub
Leaf Arrangement: Alternate
Fruit Type: Legume
Size Notes: "Up to 15 dm tall." (bibref: 1812).
Leaf: "Foliage always villosulous; primary leaves 2-4.5 cm long, the 7-11 leaflets (4) 5-13 (16) mm long." (bibref: 1812).
Flower: "Spikes mostly sessile or almost so, often drooping at tip, (2) 5-15 (20)-flowered, the axis (1) 2-20 (30) mm long; calyx 4.2-6 mm long, the tube ordinarily glabrous or less villosulous than the teeth, the glands in each interval mostly 2-3, prominent extemally, the dorsal tooth 2.4-4 mm long; androecium 4.3-5.5 mm long." (bibref: 1812).
Fruit: "Pod of D. carthagenensis." (bibref: 1812).

Bloom Information

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

Distribution

USA: TX
Native Distribution: "Gulf Coastal Plain and adjoining piedmont of Sierra Madre Oriental from southern Texas (Nueces, Starr, Cameron counties) to Veracruz and Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, eastward to western Cuba, southward, apparently uncommonly, into the highlands of Chiapas, there reaching 1600 m and passing into D. s. var. vulneraria." (bibref: 1812).
Native Habitat: "Thickets and thinly wooded or brushy hills." (bibref: 1812).

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 scandens var. paucifolia in USDA Plants
FNA: Find Dalea scandens var. paucifolia in the Flora of North America (if available)
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Metadata

Record Modified: 2020-12-07
Research By: Joseph A. Marcus

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