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Plant Characteristics

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb , Subshrub
Leaf Arrangement: Alternate
Fruit Type: Legume
Size Notes: "1.5-7 (12) dm tall." (bibref: 1812).
Leaf: "Leaf-spurs 0.3-1.2 mm long; stipules deltate-apiculate, triangular, or subulate and shortly attenuate, 0.3-1.4 mm long, the margins often charged with minute processes; intra-petiolular gland 1, small; post-petiolular glands small but prominent obtuse or prickle-shaped; main cauline leaves (drought- deciduous) 1.5-4.5 (6) cm long, shortly petioled, with (4) 5-11 (14) usually distant or remote pairs of orbicular-obcordate to obovate or broadly oblong-obovate, emarginate to retuse, flat, thick-textured leaflets 0.5-5 (7) mm long, all charged dorsally just below the apical sinus with a large gland and marginally on either side with 1-2 small ones, the latter often impressed and the leaflets thereby gland-crenulate." (bibref: 1812).
Flower: "Peduncles terminal and leaf-opposed, (0.5) 1-5 (9.5) cm long; racemes loosely or remotely many- flowered, the flowers falling in 2 ranks when pressed, the mature inflorescence without petals about 7 mm diam, the strigulose axis becoming 2-10 cm long; bracts caducous, lance- or elliptic-acuminate or -caudate, mostly 1.5-3 mm, rarely caudate-acuminate and up to 5.5 mm long, firm, greenish or purplish, incurved at apex, pubescent dorsally, the margins gland-charged, sometimes appearing fimbriolate; pedicels 0.3-0.5 (0.6) mm long, charged at base and apex with a pair of glands; calyx (2.8) 3-4.3 (4.5) mm long, loosely strigulose to hirsute-pilosulous with stiff, ascending or spreading and incurved hairs up to 0.2-0.5 mm long, the tube 1.6-2 (2.1) mm, its ribs slender, becoming prominent, the recessed, membranous intervals charged with one row of 5-6 small glands extending from base of calyx upward, the teeth unequal, herbaceous, ovate, gland-appendaged, the dorsal one longest, 1.2-2.3 (2.6) mm long, 0.9 mm longer to 0.4 mm shorter than the tube, the rest it broader and shorter; petals typically bicolored, the blade of the banner whitish with yellow, gland-sprinkled eye and blue sides or blue band all around the margin, the wings and keel (usually gland-sprinkled) perched below middle of the staminal column, their blades particolored (inner half blue, outer half whitish fading yellowish) or rarely blue-violet and concolorous; banner 2.8-4 mm long, the claw 1.6-2 mm, the deltate-cordate and acutish to reniform and emarginate blade 1.7-2.3 mm long, 2.5-3 mm wide; wings 3.3-4.8 mm long, the claw (0.8) 1-1.3 mm, the ovate to ovate-oblong, auriculate blade 2.6-3.8 mm long, (1.4) 1.6-2 mm wide; keel 5.1-7.1 mm long, the claws 1.7-2.4 mm, the elliptic-obovate blades 3.6-4.8 mm long, 2.4-3.2 mm wide; androecium 10-merous, (5) 5.5-7 mm long, the longer filaments free for about 2 mm, the anthers 0.55-0.8 mm long." (bibref: 1812).

Bloom Information

Bloom Color: White , Yellow , Blue , Violet
Bloom Time: Feb , Mar , Apr , May
Bloom Notes: "Petals typically bicolored, the blade of the banner whitish with yellow, gland-sprinkled eye and blue sides or blue band all around the margin, the wings and keel (usually gland-sprinkled) perched below middle of the staminal column, their blades particolored (inner half blue, outer half whitish fading yellowish) or rarely blue-violet and concolorous. Flowering February to May, sometimes again in fall, or sporadically following summer rains, especially southward" (bibref: 1812).

Distribution

USA: AZ , CA , NV
Native Distribution: "Widely dispersed and locally common over nearly the whole expanse of the Sonoran Desert from southeastern San Bernardino County, California and Mohave County, Arizona through the Colorado and Yuma deserts to southern Sonora (Guaymas and Ciudad Obregon) and through the Gulf islands and along the peninsula of Baja California to the latitude of La Paz (near 24° N), extending eastward in Arizona up the Gila valley and its tributaries into the Arizona Upland, and in Sonora (perhaps disjunctly) to the upper valley of Rio Bavispe, in Baja California common and apparently continuous along the Gulf coast, becoming rarer westward but reaching the Pacific coast in the Vizcaino Desert (near Punta Abreojos) and at Magdalena Bay." (bibref: 1812).
Native Habitat: "Rocky or sandy outwash fans, washes, and bouldery hillsides, mostly on granitic and volcanic bedrock, near sea-level up to 800 m (± 2700 ft) and recorded from 1150 m in Sierra de San Borja in Baja California (near lat. 28° N)." (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 Marina parryi in USDA Plants
FNA: Find Marina parryi in the Flora of North America (if available)
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