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Plant Characteristics

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Leaf Arrangement: Alternate
Fruit Type: Legume
Size Notes: "Stems 2-7 dm long." (bibref: 1812).
Leaf: "Leaf-spurs 0.2-0.6 mm long; stipules triangular-subulate, 0.2-1.5 mm long, eariy becoming papery, castaneous, deciduous; intrapetlolular glands 0; post-petiolular glands prominent, obtuse; leaves slender-petioled, 1-2.5 cm long, the tuberculate rachis narrowly thick-margined, the leaflets (2) 3-4 pairs, obovate-cuneate, emarginate, loosely folded, 3-8 mm long." (bibref: 1812).
Flower: "Peduncles 0.5-4 (5) cm long; spikes moderately loose or eariy becoming so, the calyces (pressed) falling into 2-3 ranks, at flrst narrowly ovoid becoming cylindric or catkinlike, without petals or androecia 9-11 mm diam, the puberulent axis at length 1.5-9 (13) cm long; bracts early deciduous, elliptic- or ovate-acuminate, 2.5-5 mm long, dry and brownish with minutely lacerate scarious margins, dorsally glabrous and sparsely glandular, ciliolate; calyx 4-5.8 mm long, in profile obovate-pyriform, glabrous except for the internally short-pilosulous teeth and oritice, the tube 3-3.8 mm long, recessed behind banner, plicate at the narrow base but (when fresh) only low-ribbed and not corrugated distally, the ribs subfiliform, immersed distally, the intervals pale green, herbaceous, charged with one row of 3-5 (or the ventral pair with 2-3 rows of several) golden or reddish blister glands, the teeth of about equal length, 1.1-2 mm long, the dorsal one and lateral pair subulate, the ventral pair broadly triangular- or deltate-apiculate, all spurless; petals all lilac-pink or pale rose-purple, the banner sometimes charged with a subapical gland; banner 7.2-8 mm long, the claw 3.2-3.8 mm, the suborbicular-cordate, distally hooded and shallowly emarginate blade about 4-4.5 mm long and wide; mugs 4.2-4.4 mm long, the claw 0.4-0.5 mm, the obovate blade 3.7-4 mm long, 2-2.2 mm wide; keel-petals about 4.8 mm long, the claw 0.7-1.1 mm, the oblong-obovate blade 3.7-4 mm long, about 1.8 mm wide; androecium 5 (according to Standley sometimes 6-numerous), 8.5-9.8 mm long, the column 3.5-4.5 mm, the free filaments up to 5-5.4 mm long, pinkish." (bibref: 1812).
Fruit: "Pod 3.2-4 mm long, in profile half-obovate, the ventral suture concavely and the dorsal one strongly convexly arched, the valves in lower third subhyaline, thence papery, pale-green, gland-sprinkled, glabrous except for a short beard along ventral suture and base of style; seed 2.3-3 mm long." (bibref: 1812).

Bloom Information

Bloom Color: Pink , Purple
Bloom Time: Sep
Bloom Notes: "Petals all lilac-pink or pale rose-purple." (bibref: 1812).

Distribution

USA: NM
Native Distribution: "Local, known only from the neighborhood of Albuquerque and Belen, Bernalillo and Valencia counties, New Mexico." (bibref: 1812).
Native Habitat: "Gullied sand and cobblestone bluffs along the upper Rio Grande, at ± 1460-1510 m (4900-5030 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 scariosa in USDA Plants
FNA: Find Dalea scariosa in the Flora of North America (if available)
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