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Plant Characteristics

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Shrub
Leaf Arrangement: Alternate
Fruit Type: Legume
Leaf: "Primary cauline leaves 3-5.5 (7) cm long, with 15-23 (25) leaflets 4-12 (14) mm long." (bibref: 1812).
Flower: "Peduncles terminal to main divisions of the panicle up to (3) 5-25 mm long, succeeding ones shorter or 0; spikes loose, 5-15 (20)-flowered, the villosulous axis becoming (2) 4-15 (20) mm long; bracts (2.5) 3-5 mm long, dorsally villosulous or glabrescent at middle; calyx (5.2) 5.5-7 mm long, villosulous from base upward, the tube (2.4) 2.6-3.2 mm, the teeth 2.6-4 mm long, straight or obscurely incurved at tip; banner 4.2-5.2 mm long, the claw 1.7-2.2 mm, the blade 2.5-3.4 mm long, 2.6-3.4 mm wide; keel (5.5) 5.8-6.8 mm long, the claws (1.8) 2-2.6 mm, the blades 4-5.4 mm long, (2) 2.2-3 mm wide; androecium (6.2) 6.5-8.5 mm long." (bibref: 1812).
Fruit: "Pod deltate or triangular-obovate in profile, 2.3-2.7 mm long, the ventral suture straight or notched at the pore, the style terminal or at the comer, the prow subfiliform, the valves hyaline in lower half, thinly papery, densely gland-sprinkled and villosulous distally." (bibref: 1812).

Bloom Information

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

Distribution

USA: FL , MD
Native Distribution: "Endemic to Florida; historic populations in Palm Beach County have been destroyed." (webref: 42).
Native Habitat: "Pine rocklands, edges of rockland hammocks, coastal uplands, marl prairie." (webref: 42).

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 carthagenensis var. floridana in USDA Plants
FNA: Find Dalea carthagenensis var. floridana in the Flora of North America (if available)
Google: Search Google for Dalea carthagenensis var. floridana