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Plant Characteristics

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Leaf Arrangement: Alternate
Fruit Type: Legume
Size Notes: To about 1 foot in height.
Leaf: "Leaf-spurs 0.6-1.5 mm long; stipules subulate to narrowly lance-acuminate, becoming stiff, stramineous, brittle, the tips livid; leaves 1-3.5 (4) cm long, the stiff, narrowly margined petiole (2) 4-15 mm, the rachis (0.5) 1.5-12 mm long, nearly always produced beyond the last pair of leaflets, the 5 leaflets rhombic-ovate, elliptic, oblong-elliptic, or lanceolate, acute or acuminate, flat or loosely folded, 4-15 (20) mm long, dorsally carinate by the midrib, the terminal one largest." (bibref: 1812).
Flower: "Spikes sessile or nearly so, moderately dense, ovoid becoming cylindroid, without petals 1.7-2.3 cm diam, the pilosulous axis (1.5) 2-6 cm long: bracts deciduous at or shortly after anthesis, 6-12 mm long, subdimorphic, the lowest obovate-acuminate, firm, densely pubescent, the rest usually longer and always narrower, lance- to narrowly oblong-elliptic, acute to acuminate, submembranous, pallid at base, green (tuming stramineous) or purple distally, densely ciliate, dorsally glabrescent and minutely punctate, their base wrapped around the calyx but becoming flat distally; calyx (8.5) 9-12.3 mm long, densely pilose with spreading and ascending spiral hairs up to 1.5-4 mm long, the turbinate tube (2.5) 2.7-3.5 mm long, somewhat recessed behind banner, the ribs slender becoming prominulous, the flat membranous intervals charged with 1 row of 4 small transparent glands, the deltate- or triangular-aristate, tinally spreading, plumose teeth (6) 6.5-9.3 mm long; petals yellow, in nature fading orange-brown, often turning dull pink when dried, all eglandular, the epistemonous ones perched above middle of androecium, 5.5-8 mm above hypanthium; banner 7.8-9.5 mm long, the linear claw 5.8-7.5 mm, the cordate and obtuse or spade-shaped and subacute blade 2-3 mm long, 2.4-3.4 mm wide; wings 3.3-4 mm long, the claw 0.7-1.3 mm, the oval-ovate blade 2.6-3.4 mm long, 1.8-2.3 mm wide; keel (3.3) 3.5-5.2 mm long, the claws 0.7-1.2 mm, the oval-obovate blades (2.6) 3-4 (4.2) mm long, 1.6-2.2 mm wide; androecium 10-merous, 10-13 mm long, the longer filaments free for about 1.5 mm, the pallid anthers 0.5-0.7 mm long." (bibref: 1812).
Fruit: "Pod (of the section) 2.8-3.5 mm long; seed castaneous, smooth and lustrous, 2-2.8 mm long." (bibref: 1812).

Bloom Information

Bloom Color: Pink , Orange , Yellow , Brown
Bloom Time: Apr , May , Jun , Aug , Sep , Oct , Nov
Bloom Notes: "Petals yellow, in nature fading orange-brown, often turning dull pink when dried." (bibref: 1812).

Distribution

USA: TX
Native Distribution: "Largely confined to the easternmost trans-Pecos Texas, eastern Coahuila, and closely adjacent Nuevo León, Mexico." (reslit: 2890).
Native Habitat: "Stony slopes and knolls in the foothills of desert mountains and in thin grassland of rolling plains, on a variety of soils but most vigorous and abundant on limestone, 530-1720 m (1600-5700 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.

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Research Literature

Reslit 2890 - TAXONOMY AND DISTRIBUTION OF DALEA WRIGHTII (FABACEAE) (2010) Turner, Billie L.

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Additional resources

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