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Comprehensive Description

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Parosela mollis (Benth.) A. Heller, Cat. N. Am. PI. ed. 2. 6
1900.
Dalea mollis Benth. PI. Hartw. 306. 1848.
A perennial, with a rather slender root; stem branched at the base, 1-2 dm. long, densely pilose, spreading; leaves spreading, 1-3 cm. long; stipules subulate, minute; rachis sparingly pilose and glandular-dotted; leaflets obovate, truncate or emarginate, 3-6 mm. long, densely silky-pilose, almost canescent; peduncles 1-3 cm. long; racemes dense, 1-2 cm. long; bracts narrowly lanceolate, rather shorter than the calyx, silky-pilose, somewhat glandular-dotted; calyx-tube 1.5 mm. long, equaling the filiform lobes; corolla white, tinged or tipped with rosepurple; blade of the banner cordate, rounded at the apex, 1.5 mm. long, equaling the claw; blades of the wings 2 mm. long, retuse at the apex, those of the keel-petals 2.5 mm. long, rounded at the apex, the claws respectively 1 mm. and 1.5 mm. long.
Type locality: "Monterey, California" [but more probably on the road from Mexico to Monterey, in Sonora or southern California].
Distribution: Southern California, southwestern Arizona, Sonora, and Lower California.
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Per Axel Rydberg. 1919. (ROSALES); FABACEAE; PSORALEAE. North American flora. vol 24(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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Parosela pilosa Rydberg, sp. nov
A perennial, with a slender deep root ; stem branched from the base, decumbent or spreading, long-villous, rather conspicuously glandular-dotted (somewhat pustulate), 1-3 dm. long; leaves spreading, 2-3 cm. long; stipules subulate, 2-3 mm. long; petioles 3-5 mm. long; rachis sparingly villous, glandular-dotted; leaflets 7-15, broadly obovate-cuneate or subobcordate, 4-8 mm. long, usually truncate or retuse at the apex, villous, conspicuously glandular-dotted on the lower surface; peduncles opposite the leaves, 2-5 cm. long; racemes dense, 1.5-4 cm. long; bracts linear-lanceolate, sparingly silky-villous, long-attenuate, glandular-dotted, exceeding the calyx, caducous; flowers short-pedicelled, reflexed in fruit; calyx-tube turbinate, 2-2.5 mm. long, strongly 10-ribbed, silky-pilose; lobes 3-4 mm. long; corolla rose-colored to white and usually blotched with rose; blade of the banner broadly cordate, 3 mm. long, the claw 1.5-2 mm. long; wings and keel-petals inserted below the middle of the staminal tube; blades of the wings broadly oblong, usually retuse at the apex, 3 mm. long, those of the keelpetals obliquely obovate, with a rounded basal lobe, 4 mm. long, the claws of both 1.5-2 mm. long; pod villous.
Type collected at Los Angeles Bay. Lower California, 1887, Palmer 550 (herb. Columbia Univ.). Distribution: Southern California to Sonora and Lower California.
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Per Axel Rydberg. 1919. (ROSALES); FABACEAE; PSORALEAE. North American flora. vol 24(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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Physical Description

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Annual, Herbs, Taproot present, Nodules present, Stems prostrate, trailing, or mat forming, Stems less than 1 m tall, Plants gland-dotted or with gland-tipped hairs, Stems solid, Stems or young twigs sparsely to densely hairy, Leaves alternate, Leaves petiolate, Stipules inconspicuous, absent, or caducous, Stipules setiform, subulate or acicular, Stipules deciduous, Stipules free, Leaves compound, Leaves odd pinnate, Leaf or leaflet margins entire, Leaflets opposite, Leaflets 5-9, Leaflets 10-many, Leaves glandular p unctate or gland-dotted, Leaves glabrous or nearly so, Inflorescences spikes or spike-like, Inflorescence terminal, Bracts conspicuously present, Bracteoles present, Calyx 5-lobed, Calyx gland-dotted or with glandular spot, Calyx hairy, Petals separate, Corolla papilionaceous, Petals clawed, Petals white, Petals pinkish to rose, Petals blue, lavander to purple, or violet, Banner petal narrow or oblanceolate, Banner petal ovoid or obovate, Wing petals narrow, oblanceolate to oblong, Wing tips obtuse or rounded, Keel tips obtuse or rounded, not beaked, Stamens 9-10, Stamens monadelphous, united below, Filaments glabrous, Style terete, Fruit a legume, Fruit unilocular, Fruit indehiscent, Fruit elongate, straight, Fruit oblong or ellipsoidal, Fruit enclosed in calyx, Fruit hairy, Fruit gland-dotted or with gland-tipped hairs, Fruit 1-seeded, Seeds reniform, Seeds cordiform, mit-shaped, notched at one end, Seed surface smooth, Seeds olive, brown, or black.
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Dalea mollis

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Dalea mollis is a species of flowering plant in the legume family which is known by the common name hairy prairie clover.

Distribution

This wildflower is native to the deserts of California, Arizona, and Northwestern Mexico.

It is a common member of the Mojave Desert and Sonoran Desert ecoregions. It forms a small, flat patches on the gravelly desert floor and on slopes and weedy roadsides.

Description

Dalea mollis is a small cloverlike mat-forming annual legume with gland-dotted foliage covered thickly in long white hairs. The leaves are made up of several pairs of small, folded, oval-shaped leaflets each about a centimeter long. The plant flowers in pea-like blooms just under a centimeter wide which may be lavender, yellow, or white, sometimes bicolored. The fruit is a small, single-seeded legume pod.

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Dalea mollis: Brief Summary

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Dalea mollis is a species of flowering plant in the legume family which is known by the common name hairy prairie clover.

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