Psorothamnus schottii
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Psorothamnus schottii is a species of flowering plant in the legume family known by the common name Schott's dalea.[1] It is native to the Sonoran Deserts of northern Mexico and adjacent sections of Arizona and the Colorado Desert in California.
Description[]
Psorothamnus schottii is a shrub approaching two meters in maximum height. Its highly branching stems are green to woolly gray-green and glandular. The gland-pitted linear leaves are up to 3 centimeters long and not divided into leaflets.
The inflorescence is an open raceme of up to 15 flowers. Each flower has a deep purple blue pealike corolla up to a centimeter long in a glandular tubular calyx of sepals with pointed lobes. The fruit is a legume pod coated in glands and containing one seed.
References[]
- ^ "Psorothamnus schottii". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
External links[]
- CalFlora Database: Psorothamnus schottii (Schott indigobush, Schott's dalea, Schott's indigo bush)
- Jepson Manual eFlora (TJM2) treatment of Psorothamnus schottii
- USDA Plants Profile for Psorothamnus schottii
- UC Photos gallery — Psorothamnus schottii
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