Plant Database

From the Image Gallery

Plant Characteristics

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Leaf Arrangement: Alternate
Fruit Type: Legume
Size Notes: "(2.5) 3-5.5 dm tall." (bibref: 1812).
Leaf: "Leaf-spurs 0.2-1 mm long; stipules narrowly subulate or linear, castaneous or castaneous-tipped, 1-2.5 (3) mm long, early papery and fragile; intrapetlolular glands present, small; post-petiolular glands large, prominent, obtuse; leaves short-petioled, the main cauline ones 2-5.5 cm long, with narrowly thick-margined, ventrally grooved rachis and 2-3 (4) pairs of narrowly to broadly oblanceolate, oblong-elliptic, or obovate, emarginate, obtuse, or bluntly gland-mucronulate, usually folded and often backwardly arched leaflets up to 7-17 (20) mm long, the terminal one at least slightly longer than last pair." (bibref: 1812).
Flower: "Peduncles (2.5) 4-16 (20) cm long; spikes moderately dense but not conelike, the flowers (pressed) falling into 3-4 irregular ranks and often partially exposing the viUosulous or glabrate axis, without petals narrowly oblong-cylindroid, (8) 9-11 mm diameter, (1.5) 2-9 (14) cm long; bracts mostly deciduous by late anthesis, hardly dimorphic except the lowest a trifle firmer and broader than the rest, the interfloral ones 3-5 (6) cm long, folded and scarious at base, lanceolate or lance-caudate and firm distally, dorsally pilose, pilosulous, or glabrous, sparsely glandular, commonly livid-tipped; calyx (3.2) 3.5-4.6 (4.8) mm long, variably pubescent, always pilose or pilosulous on and within the teeth with weak spreading hairs up to 0.4-1.3 mm long, the ovoid tube varying from densely pilosulous to glabrous, this 2-2.8 mm long, deeply cleft behind banner, the ribs slender, not prominent, the pallid submembranous intervals often flecked with lines of castaneous cells, glandless or charged above middle with 2-4 small pale glands, the teeth of about equal length but dissimilar in shape, the dorsal 3 lance-subulate, (0.8) 1-2.2 mm long (0.2-1.4, rarely 1.9 mm shorter than tube), the ventral pair deltateovate, all green or livid at tip; petals rose-purple, eglandular (or banner rarely charged at base of blade with 2 (4) minute glands); banner 5.3-7.2 mm long, the claw (2.5) 2.7-3.5 mm, the ovate, ovate-deltate, or narrowly ovate-oblong, usually subcordate, obtuse or emarginate, slightly hooded blade 2.8-3.7 mm long, 2.2-3.4 mm wide; epistemonous petals (3.6) 3.8-4.8 mm long, the claw 0.6-0.9 mm, the oblong or oblanceolate, truncate-emarginate or very obtuse blades either tapering or abruptly narrowed at base, (2.7) 3-4.1 mm long, (0.9) 1.1-1.6 mm wide; androecium 5.5-8.5 mm long, the column (2.2) 2.6-3.6 mm, the free filaments (3) 3.4-5.1 mm long, usually pink, the yellow anthers 1.1-1.5 mm long." (bibref: 1812).
Fruit: "Pod half-obovate in profile, 3.2-4 mm long, the style-base latero-terminal, the prow moderately thickened, the valves papery except at extreme base, distally gland-sprinkled, either pilosulous or subglabrous; seed 2-2.8 mm long." (bibref: 1812).

Bloom Information

Bloom Color: Pink , Purple
Bloom Time: May , Jun , Jul
Bloom Notes: "Petals rose-purple." (bibref: 1812).

Distribution

USA: AZ , CA , NV , UT
Native Distribution: "Widespread and locally abundant over the southern half of Nevada, southwestern Utah, and adjoining Cahfornia and Arizona, westerward into the edge of the Mohave Desert (Providence and New York mountains). Death Valley, and Inyo Mountains, northward in Nevada to Paradise Range in Churchill County and the Snake Range in White Pine County, southward in Arizona to Coconino Plateau in northwestern Mohave and Coconino counties, eastward up the Virgin River and through the Dixie Corridor into the western margins of the Canyonlands, in Utah to the Pahria River and Aquarius Plateau and in Arizona to the lower Littie Colorado and Painted Desert in Coconino County; apparently disjunctly around the western margin of Salt Lake Desert in eastern Elko County, Nevada, and adjoining Box Elder County, Utah." (bibref: 1812).
Native Habitat: "Dry bluffs and hillsides, sandy and rocky flats, sometimes on clay knolls of the valley floor, commonly calciphile but sometimes on sandstones and perhaps other bedrock, (1100) 1230-1980 m (3700-6600 ft); in Inyo Mountains. rarely to 2280 m (7600 ft)." (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.

Search More Titles in Bibliography

Additional resources

USDA: Find Dalea searlsiae in USDA Plants
FNA: Find Dalea searlsiae in the Flora of North America (if available)
Google: Search Google for Dalea searlsiae