Dalea mollis
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Dalea mollis |
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.
External links[]
- Dalea
- Flora of Northwestern Mexico
- Flora of the Southwestern United States
- Flora of the California desert regions
- Flora of the Sonoran Deserts
- Natural history of the Colorado Desert
- Natural history of the Mojave Desert
- Taxa named by George Bentham
- Plants described in 1848
- Faboideae stubs