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Dalea adenopoda
Dalea adenopoda (Rydb.) Isely
Tampa Prairie Clover
Fabaceae (Pea family)
Synonym(s): Dalea pinnata var. adenopoda, Kuhnistera adenopoda, Kuhnistera truncata, Petalostemon adenopodus
USDA Symbol: DAAD
USDA Native Status: L48 (N)
Plants lacking a prominent caudex, the root often red. Stems dark, glabrous and striate, 1 m or shorter, covered with spherical, protuberant secretory cavities ("glands") about 1 mm in diameter, increasing in abundance toward the stem apex." (reslit: 2887).
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Plant Characteristics
Duration: PerennialHabit: Herb
Leaf Arrangement: Alternate
Fruit Type: Legume
Size Notes: "1 m or shorter." (reslit: 2887).
Leaf: "Leaves fascicled, less than 2 cm long with 3-7 elliptical leaflets, usually 2-3 mm wide and 6-8 mm long, paler green on top surface, often involute." (reslit: 2887).
Flower: "Inflorescence corymbose with peduncles below the individual flower spikes lacking, the leaves gradually merging into involucral-like, oval to reniform, sharply acuminate, ciliate, sterile bracts. Calyx villous, tube 2-3 mm long, lobes plumose, 4.0-4.5 mm long. Corolla white, standard lanceolate, sometimes truncate, 0.8 mm wide, 3.5 mm long, equalling claw; apicalpetals lanceolate, sometimes truncate, blades 1.0 mm wide, 3.0 mm long, claw 1.2 mm long. Androecial tube 5-6 mm long, almost equalling tips of calyx lobes, stamen filaments 4.0 mm long, spreading at anthesis. Ovary 2.0 mm long, bearded on the distal 2/3, predominantly so on the upper surface; style 10.0 mm long bearded proximally over 1/2 its length." (reslit: 2887).
Fruit: "Pod 2.5 mm long." (bibref: 1238).
Bloom Information
Bloom Color: WhiteBloom Time: Jan , Feb , Mar , Sep , Oct , Nov , Dec
Bloom Notes: "Petals white." (bibref: 1812).
Distribution
USA: FLNative Distribution: "Restricted to the lower half of peninsular Florida." (reslit: 2887).
Native Habitat: "Limited to the higher, drier sandy areas. Often associated with turkey oak (Querous laevis Walt.), long leaf pine (Plnus australis Mlchx.) and saw palmetto (Serenoa repens Small), a habitat similar to that occupied by P. caroliniense (Dalea pinnata var. pinnata -eds.) to the north." (reslit: 2887).
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.Bibref 1238 - Flora of the Southeastern United States (1913) Small, J. K.
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USDA: Find Dalea adenopoda in USDA PlantsFNA: Find Dalea adenopoda in the Flora of North America (if available)
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Metadata
Record Modified: 2020-12-07Research By: Joseph A. Marcus