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Dalea wrightii var. warnockii
Dalea wrightii A. Gray var. warnockii (Tharp & F.A. Barkley) B.L. Turner
Warnock's Prairie Clover
Fabaceae (Pea family)
Synonym(s):
USDA Symbol: DAWRW2
USDA Native Status: L48 (N)
"Low or dwarf perennial herbs, sometimes flowering precociously but ultimately developing a woody root and shortly forking caudex, excluding the massive terminal spikes 1.5-20 (30) cm tall, densely silky-pilose or -pilosulous with ascending or subappressed, mostly straight but sometimes ± contorted (then subtomentose) hairs up to 0.8-1.5 mm long, the stems usually few, (1) 2-5, rarely more numerous, simple, the shorter ones erect, the longer decumbent and distally incurved, the foliage gray or silvery, the leaflets pubescent both sides, not obviously glandular, the inflorescence pilose-barbate." (bibref: 1812).
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Plant Characteristics
Duration: PerennialHabit: Herb
Leaf Arrangement: Alternate
Fruit Type: Legume
Size Notes: To about 1 foot in height.
Leaf: "Leaf-spurs 0.6-1.5 mm long; stipules subulate to narrowly lance-acuminate, becoming stiff, stramineous, brittle, the tips livid; leaves 1-3.5 (4) cm long, the stiff, narrowly margined petiole (2) 4-15 mm, the rachis (0.5) 1.5-12 mm long, nearly always produced beyond the last pair of leaflets, the 5 leaflets rhombic-ovate, elliptic, oblong-elliptic, or lanceolate, acute or acuminate, flat or loosely folded, 4-15 (20) mm long, dorsally carinate by the midrib, the terminal one largest." (bibref: 1812).
Flower: "Spikes sessile or nearly so, moderately dense, ovoid becoming cylindroid, without petals 1.7-2.3 cm diam, the pilosulous axis (1.5) 2-6 cm long: bracts deciduous at or shortly after anthesis, 6-12 mm long, subdimorphic, the lowest obovate-acuminate, firm, densely pubescent, the rest usually longer and always narrower, lance- to narrowly oblong-elliptic, acute to acuminate, submembranous, pallid at base, green (tuming stramineous) or purple distally, densely ciliate, dorsally glabrescent and minutely punctate, their base wrapped around the calyx but becoming flat distally; calyx (8.5) 9-12.3 mm long, densely pilose with spreading and ascending spiral hairs up to 1.5-4 mm long, the turbinate tube (2.5) 2.7-3.5 mm long, somewhat recessed behind banner, the ribs slender becoming prominulous, the flat membranous intervals charged with 1 row of 4 small transparent glands, the deltate- or triangular-aristate, tinally spreading, plumose teeth (6) 6.5-9.3 mm long; petals yellow, in nature fading orange-brown, often turning dull pink when dried, all eglandular, the epistemonous ones perched above middle of androecium, 5.5-8 mm above hypanthium; banner 7.8-9.5 mm long, the linear claw 5.8-7.5 mm, the cordate and obtuse or spade-shaped and subacute blade 2-3 mm long, 2.4-3.4 mm wide; wings 3.3-4 mm long, the claw 0.7-1.3 mm, the oval-ovate blade 2.6-3.4 mm long, 1.8-2.3 mm wide; keel (3.3) 3.5-5.2 mm long, the claws 0.7-1.2 mm, the oval-obovate blades (2.6) 3-4 (4.2) mm long, 1.6-2.2 mm wide; androecium 10-merous, 10-13 mm long, the longer filaments free for about 1.5 mm, the pallid anthers 0.5-0.7 mm long." (bibref: 1812).
Fruit: "Pod (of the section) 2.8-3.5 mm long; seed castaneous, smooth and lustrous, 2-2.8 mm long." (bibref: 1812).
Bloom Information
Bloom Color: Pink , Orange , Yellow , BrownBloom Time: Apr , May , Jun , Aug , Sep , Oct , Nov
Bloom Notes: "Petals yellow, in nature fading orange-brown, often turning dull pink when dried." (bibref: 1812).
Distribution
USA: TXNative Distribution: "Largely confined to the easternmost trans-Pecos Texas, eastern Coahuila, and closely adjacent Nuevo León, Mexico." (reslit: 2890).
Native Habitat: "Stony slopes and knolls in the foothills of desert mountains and in thin grassland of rolling plains, on a variety of soils but most vigorous and abundant on limestone, 530-1720 m (1600-5700 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.Search More Titles in Bibliography
Research Literature
Reslit 2890 - TAXONOMY AND DISTRIBUTION OF DALEA WRIGHTII (FABACEAE) (2010) Turner, Billie L.This information was provided by the Florida WIldflower Foundation.
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Additional resources
USDA: Find Dalea wrightii var. warnockii in USDA PlantsFNA: Find Dalea wrightii var. warnockii in the Flora of North America (if available)
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Metadata
Record Modified: 2020-12-07Research By: Joseph A. Marcus