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Plant Characteristics

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Leaf Arrangement: Alternate
Fruit Type: Legume
Size Notes: "3-6 (7) dm tall." (bibref: 1812).
Leaf: "The foliage bluish-green or subglaucescent, the leaflets scarcely bicolored, punctate beneath; leaf-spurs almost 0 up to 1 mm long; stipules narrowly subulate to linear-aristiform, early dry and fragile, 1.5-5.5 mm long; intrapetiolular glands minute; post-petiolular glands small, not or scarcely protuberant; leaves petioled, the primary cauline ones (2) 2.5-5.5 cm long, with narrowly thickmargined, usually punctate rachis and (1) 2-3 (4) pairs of linear to linear-elliptic, mostly acute and mucronulate, flat but marginally involute or strongly inrolled leaflets up to (1) 1.2-2.5 cm long, the leaflets of axillary spurs similar but mostly 3 and shorter." (bibref: 1812).
Flower: "Peduncles 0-15 cm long; spikes very dense and conelike, ovoid becoming oblong or subglobose, each side composed of ascending spirals of 5-8 calyces, the whole without bracts, petals or androecia 10.5-14 (15) mm diam, the pilosulous axis (0.5) 1-3 cm long; bracts persistent, the lowest firm, thinly pilosulous or glabrate, ovate to ovate-acuminate or -caudate, the upper ones obovate to oblanceolate, contracted into a glabrous, livid tip 0.7-4 mm long, papery at very base, usually velvety-pilosulous dorsally at middle; calyx (4.4) 5-6.2 mm long, densely pilosulous about the oriflce, along margins of teeth, and in lines along the obtuse angles below each sinus, with dense, plushlike indument of subappressed and ascending hairs up to 0.1- 0.25 mm long, the tube 3-3.8 mm long, not recessed behind banner, at base membranous and brownish, thence (dry) appearing either whitish or glaucous-green (but brownish within or when moistened), the ribs immersed, the intervals firm, eglandular or minutely livid-punctate, the teeth of subequal length but dissimilar in form, the 3 dorsal ones broadly subulate, the ventral pair deltate-ovate, the longest (1.2) 1.4-2.4 mm long; petals concolorous, vivid rose-lilac or rose-purple, glandless; banner 5.4-9 mm long, the claw 3.4-5.8 mm, the ovate-oblong or -deltate, basally cordate or truncate, apically obtuse, strongly hooded blade 2.2-3.5 mm long, 2.4-3.6 mm wide; epistemonous petals all alike, 3.5-5.4 mm long, the claw 0.6-1.8 mm, the oblong or oblong-oblanceolate blades 2.8-4 mm long, 1.1-1.8 mm wide, at base either 2-auriculate or cuneate, at apex hooded, obtuse or emarginate; androecium 8-10.5 (11.2) mm long, the column 4.5-5.6 (6) mm, the purple free filaments up to (3.3) 3.5-5 (5.4) mm long, the connective gland-tipped, the anthers orange-yellow, 1.15-1.5 mm long; ovary glabrous or very thinly pilosulous at apex." (bibref: 1812).
Fruit: Pod (littie known) obliquely obovoid, 3-3.5 mm long, the style-base excentrically terminal, the prow transversely dilated, corneous." (bibref: 1812).

Bloom Information

Bloom Color: White , Pink , Purple
Bloom Time: Apr , May , Jun
Bloom Notes: "Petals concolorous, vivid rose-lilac or rose-purple." (bibref: 1812).

Distribution

USA: AR , OK , TX
Native Distribution: Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma

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