Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fabales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Dalea gattingeri
FAMILY
Fabaceae
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PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Dalea gattingeri
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Petalostemon gattingeri
COMMON NAME:
Gattinger's Prairie-clover, Purple-tassels
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_dalea_gattingeri_7
May
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_d_gattingeri_gat2
June
Calyx loosely hairy, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States.
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_d_gattingeri_gat3
June
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_d_gattingeri_gattinge
June
Flowers borne in a long cylindric head resembling a bottlebrush, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_dalea_gattingeri
September
Flowering progresses from bottom to top [the inflorescence indeterminate], per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Dalea gattingeri
FAMILY
Fabaceae
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Dalea gattingeri
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Petalostemon gattingeri
3616
Forb
Perennial
Native to Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA - -
Rare
Habitat: calcareous glades and barrens, per Weakley's Flora
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LEAVES:
Odd-pinnately compound: 5-7(9) leaflets
Alternate
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Deep pink/ Purple
5-lobed calyx
Corolla not papilionaceous
5 stamens
Superior ovary
Inflorescence a spike
FRUIT:
Legume
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p034
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p132
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p169