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Dalea scandens
Dalea scandens (Mill.) R.T. Clausen
Low Prairie Clover
Fabaceae (Pea family)
Synonym(s):
USDA Symbol: DASC3
USDA Native Status: L48 (N)
"Essentially like D. carthagenensis, up to 15 dm tall, ordinarlly villosulous throughout, exceptionally glabrous to the inflorescence, the leaflets bicolored, green above, pallid or subglaucescent beneath." (bibref: 1812).
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Plant Characteristics
Duration: PerennialHabit: Herb , Subshrub
Leaf Arrangement: Alternate
Fruit Type: Legume
Size Notes: "Up to 15 dm tall." (bibref: 1812).
Leaf: "Leaves dimorphic, the primary cauline ones 2-5 (7) cm long, with 7-17 leaflets (4) 5-18 (22) mm long." (bibref: 1812).
Flower: "Peduncles usually very short or 0, the first of each major division of the panicle sometimes developed and up to 2.5 cm long; spikes moderately loose, ovate-oblong to capitate-subglobose, the flowers falling into 2-3 ranks when pressed, the axis becoming 2-20 (30) mm long; bracts broadly lance- or ovate-acuminate, 2-6.5 mm long, gross-glandular and usually villosulous dorsally; calyx (3.6) 4.2-8.9 mm long, the tube either glabrous or villous, (1.6) 1.8-2.8 (3.1) mm long, the brown ribs prominent, the intervals charged with 1 row of (2) 3-6 discrete or (by confluence) 1-2 larger, orange-brown blister-glands, the triangular-aristiform, gland-spurred teeth more or less unequal, plumose-plumulose with spreading hairs up to 0.6-1.1 mm long, the dorsal tooth sigmoidally arched in age, uncinate at apex, (1.6) 2.4-6.2 mm long; petals as in D. carthagenensis; banner 4.3-8.5 mm long." (bibref: 1812).
Fruit: "Pod of D. carthagenensis." (bibref: 1812).
Bloom Information
Bloom Color: White , Green , Purple , BrownBloom Time: Jan , Feb , Mar , Apr , Sep , Oct , Nov , Dec
Bloom Notes: "Small greenish-creamy flowers early fading dull purple or brownish." (bibref: 1812).
Distribution
USA: TXNative Distribution: Texas to Nicaragual and Cuba. (bibref: 1812).
Native Habitat: "Thickets and thinly wooded or brushy hills." (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.Search More Titles in Bibliography
Additional resources
USDA: Find Dalea scandens in USDA PlantsFNA: Find Dalea scandens in the Flora of North America (if available)
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Metadata
Record Modified: 2020-12-07Research By: Joseph A. Marcus