Common Dunebroom

Parryella filifolia T. & G.; A. Gray, Proe. Am. Acad. 7: 397 1868.
A low shrub, broom-like, much branched ; branches glabrous or sparingly strigose, roughened with somewhat raised glands, becoming ash-colored; leaves 3-12 cm. long, ascending; stipules minute, subulate, deciduous; leaflets 11-45, linear-filiform to oblong, 5-15 mm. long, 0.5-2 mm. wide, strigose or glabrate, conspicuously glandular-punctate, often involute; racemes lax, 5-10 cm. long; bracts minute, deciduous; pedicels 1-1.5 mm. long; calyx 2.5 mm. long, glabrous except the ciliolate margins of the broad triangular teeth; filaments exserted, about twice as long as the calyx; style slightly pilose; pod 5-6 mm. long, 2.5-3 mm. wide, obliquely obovoid, with a short beak, conspicuously glandular-punctate.
Type locality: Along the Rio Grande, below Albuquerque, New Mexico. Distribution: New Mexico and Arizona.

Perennial, Shrubs, Stems woody below, or from woody crown or caudex, Nodules present, Stems erect or ascending, Stems less than 1 m tall, Stems 1-2 m tall, Plants gland-dotted or with gland-tipped hairs, Stems solid, Stems or young twigs sparsely to densely hairy, Stem hairs hispid to villous, Leaves alternate, Leaves petiolate, Stipules conspicuous, Stipules setiform, subulate or acicular, Stipules deciduous, Stipules free, Leaves compound, Leaves odd pinnate, Leaf or leaflet margins entire, Leaflets opposite, Leaflets 10-many, Leaves glandular punctate or gland-dotted, Leaves glabrous or nearly so, Leaves hairy on one or both surfaces, Inflorescences racemes, Inflorescence panicles, Inflorescences spikes or spike-like, Inflorescence axillary, Bracts very small, absent or caducous, Flowers sessile or nearly so, Flowers zygomorphic, Calyx 5-lobed , Calyx glabrous, Corolla absent, Stamens numerous, more than 10, Stamens completely free, separate, Stamens long exserted, Filaments glabrous, Style terete, Style persistent in fruit, Fruit a legume, Fruit unilocular, Fruit indehiscent, Fruit oblong or ellipsoidal, Fruit exserted from calyx, Fruit beaked, Fruit glabrous or glabrate, Fruit gland-dotted or with gland-tipped hairs, Fruit 1-seeded, Seeds ovoid to rounded in outline, Seed surface smooth, Seeds olive, brown, or black.