Daleae Imagines page 861 plate CXXXIV
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Daleae Imagines page 861 plate CXXXIV
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Creator(s)
R. C. Barneby
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Publisher
The New York Botanical Garden Press
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Description
PLATE CXXXIV Dalea enneandra Nuttall, a tall virgate herb of United States prairies, ranging from Texas to North Dakota, w. into e. Wyoming, e. Colorado, and n.-e. New Mexico, e. into Iowa and n.-w. Missouri. The plant is glabrous except for silvery-plumose calyces, with erect stems branching distally into an effuse panicle of spikes. The glaucous, dotted foliage is deciduous after midsummer. The caducous petals are white except for a faint green eye-spot on the banner. Note the persistent bracts which enfold the calyx and fall with it, carrying the pod and its single seed on feathered sails. — Habit × 1; the rest × 5. branch of the panicle; 2) leaf-base, showing stipules, pulvinus, and first joint of rachis with leaflet; 3) flower + bract; 4) calyx, laid open; 5) fruiting calyx + bract; 6) banner, ventral and profile views; 7) keel; 8) wing; 9) androecium; 10) pod.
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