Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fabales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Dalea purpurea var. purpurea
FAMILY
Fabaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Dalea purpurea var. purpurea
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Petalostemon purpureus
COMMON NAME:
Purple Prairie-clover
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_pepu15_001_lvd
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Bruce A. Sorrie bas_dalea_purpurea1
June Otoe County NE
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Bruce A. Sorrie bas_dalea_purpurea1b
June Otoe County NE
Flowers occur in a round head that matures to a short cylindric head, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Bruce A. Sorrie bas_dalea_purpurea1c
June Otoe County NE
Pinnately compound leaves with an odd number of leaflets, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States.
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Bruce A. Sorrie bas_dalea_purpurea1d
June Otoe County NE
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Dalea purpurea var. purpurea
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Dalea purpurea var. purpurea
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Petalostemon purpureus
2311
Subshrub; Forb
Perennial
Native: north & west of the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in - - -
Look for it in prairies, glades, and open woodlands, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
LEAVES:
Odd-pinnately compound: 3-5(7) leaflets
Mostly alternate
Margins entire
FLOWER:
Summer
Reddish-purple
Barely bilaterally symmetrical
5-lobed calyx
Corolla not papilionaceous
5 stamens, monadelphous
Superior ovary
Inflorescence a spike
FRUIT:
Summer
Legume
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Native Alternatives to Invasive Plants p185
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p034
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p132
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p169