SILKY PRAIRIE-CLOVER
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Dalea villosa (Nutt. ) Spreng.
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| Russell County, Kansas |
| Perennial |
| Height: 8-20 inches |
| Family: Fabaceae - Bean Family |
| Flowering Period: June, July, August |
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| Stems: | | Ascending or loosely spreading, 1 to several, usually branched above, densely silky. | | Leaves: | | Alternate, crowded, short-stalked, odd-pinnately compound, .75 to 1.5 inch long, .5 to 1 inch wide, densely covered with soft silky hairs; leaflets 11-21, elliptic, .25 to .5 inch long, less than .1 inch wide; margins entire; tips blunt. | | Inflorescences: | | Spikes, cylindric, 1 to 4.5 inches long, densely flowered, terminal; tips sometimes drooping. | | Flowers: | | Calyces 5-lobed, densely hairy, subtended by linear-lanceolate bracts; corollas papilionaceous, petals pink, lavender, or white; stamens 5, filaments united. | | Fruits: | | Pods, silky-hairy; seeds 1, small, smooth, brown. | | Habitat: | | Dry prairies, stream valleys, and open woodlands, on very sandy soils. | | Distribution: | | Principally central 1/3 and southwest corner of Kansas. | | Comments: | | Silky prairie clover has reddish orange roots and grows in dense clumps. In Latin, villosus means "hairy" or "shaggy". |
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| Silky prairie-clover flowers |  | | 88 KB | | Russell County, Kansas |
| | Silky prairie-clover inflorescence |  | | 84 KB | | Russell County, Kansas |
| | Silky prairie-clover leaf |  | | 85 KB | | Russell County, Kansas |
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| | Silky prairie-clover |  | | 152 KB | | Russell County, Kansas |
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