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Plant Characteristics

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Leaf Arrangement: Alternate
Fruit Type: Legume
Size Notes: "(0.5) 1-3.5 dm tall." (bibref: 1812).
Leaf: "Leaf-spurs 0.5-1.2 (1.5) mm long; stipules narrowly triangular or subulate, 0.5-2 mm long, pallid becoming dry and papery, stiff but not spinulose, thinly pilosulous, livid-tipped; leaves 1-2.5 (3) cm long, petioled, all or all but a few of the lowest and uppermost 5 (a few exceptionally 7)-foliolate, the margined punctate petiole mostly 4-11 mm long, the rachis shorter, usually (but not always) produced beyond the last pair of leaflets, the leaflets obovate, oblong-obovate, obovate-cuneate, elliptic, or oblanceolate, mostly obtuse and emarginate, sometimes abruptly acute or acuminate above the broad apex, either flat or folded, 3-15 mm long, dorsally carinate and faintly or distinctly punctate, either pubescent or more rarely glabrescent medially to glabrate above." (bibref: 1812).
Flower: "Peduncles 0-3.5 cm long, spikes relatively loose, at least in age, the flowers of each vertical rank by late anthesis standing at least 1 mm apart along the axis, this partly revealed in pressed specimens; bracts broadly ovate-, obovate-, or elliptic-acuminate, the tail very short, the whole 2.5-5.5 mm long, 2-4 mm wide; calyx-tube usually campanulate, 2.2-3 mm diameter; petals opening clear yellow, fading brownish, or when dried purplish or pinkish, eglandular, the epistemonous ones perched near middle of androecium 2.7-5 mm above hypanthium; banner (4) 4.4-5.5 mm long, the claw (2.6) 2.8-3.5 mm, the suborbicular-cordate, reniform, or subflabellate, obtuse or emarginate blade 1.5-3.2 mm long, (1.5) 2-3.6 mm wide; wings 2.6-4.3 mm long the claw 0.4-0.9 mm, the obliquely ovate blade 2.1-3.7 mm long, 0.9-1.8 mm wide; keel 3.8-6.1 mm long, the claws 0.8-1.5 (1.7) mm, the obovate to oblong-elliptic blades 2.8-4.8 mm long, 1.7-2.8 mm wide; androecium 10-merous, (6) 6.4-1 () mm long, the longer filaments free for 1.1-2.3 mm, the pallid anthers 0.4-0.65 (0.7) mm long." (bibref: 1812).
Fruit: "Pod (of the section) 2.5-3 mm long; seed castaneous, smooth, 1.8-2.2 mm long." (bibref: 1812).

Bloom Information

Bloom Color: Pink , Yellow , Purple , Brown
Bloom Time: Apr , May , Jun , Jul , Aug , Sep
Bloom Notes: "Petals opening clear yellow, fading brownish, or when dried purplish or pinkish." (bibref: 1812).

Distribution

USA: AZ , CO , KS , NM , OK , TX
Native Distribution: "Locally abundant and widespread over the Gulf Coastal Plain of south Texas and adjoining Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon, absent or nearly so from Edwards Plateau and calcareous caprock of Trans-Pecos, reappearing, but more scattered, on the plains of western and panhandle Texas, northward through panhandle Oklahoma to the valleys of the Canadian and Arkansas rivers in southwestern Kansas and southeastern Colorado, westward through the middle Pecos valley to the Rio Grande (upstream to Albuquerque), and south and southwest to Rio Conchos in centrral Chihuahua and around the southern. end of the Mogollon massif in New Mexico into southeastern Arizona; apparently absent from Coahuila, entering the Big Bend country only at its north margin and along the bed of Rio Grande, on the limestones of northern Mexico and west Texas largely replaced by D. n. var. carnescens.." (bibref: 1812).
Native Habitat: "Sandy plains, dunes, stream-beds, sometimes becoming weedy along roads and railroads, generally avoiding rocky subsoils and prevailingly calcifuge, 10-1500 m (25-5000 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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Additional resources

USDA: Find Dalea nana var. nana in USDA Plants
FNA: Find Dalea nana var. nana in the Flora of North America (if available)
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