Dalea

Plant Characteristics

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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Dalea in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Dalea (Samuel Dale, 1659-1739, English botanist and author on pharmacology). Syn. Parosela. Legu- minosae. More than 100 herbs and small shrubs bearing purple, blue, white or even yellow fls. in terminal or lateral spikes or heads, odd-pinnate Lvs., and usually glandular-dotted, a very few of which have been cult.; probably none is now in the American trade. Fls. papilionaceous, the standard mostly cordate or eared and clawed and attached in the bottom of the calyx, the wings and keel attached or adnate to the stamen- tube and usually exceeding the standard; stamens 10 or 9, monadelphous: fr. a small usually 1-seeded mostly indehiscent pod inclosed in the calyx. The species occur from the N. U. S. to Chile and the Galapagos Isls. They grow in the U. S., mostly on prairies and in dry soil; some of these species might make acceptable border plants. Those that have received most attention are tropical species, as D. mutabilis, Willd., of Mex., with fls. white changing to violet, (B. M. 2486) and D. Mutisii, Kunth (properly Psoralea Mutisii, HBK.), of the northern Andes, with deep blue fls. in cylindrical heads; these are to be regarded as greenhouse perennials. L. H. B. CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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