. Botanical and vegetation survey of Carter County, Montana, Bureau of Land Management-administered lands . Botany; Rare plants. Reprinted with permission from the New Britton and Brown Illustrated Flora of the Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada, Vol. 2, page 411, Copyright 1952, The New York Botanical Garden. DALEA VILLOSA SILKY PRAIRIE CLOVER Silky Prairie Clover is a perennial herb with ascending or lax, branched stems that are 20-35 cm high , and which arise from red-orange roots and a rootcrown. The alternate, pinnately compound leaves are 2-4 cm long and have 11-21 linear lea
. Botanical and vegetation survey of Carter County, Montana, Bureau of Land Management-administered lands . Botany; Rare plants. Reprinted with permission from the New Britton and Brown Illustrated Flora of the Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada, Vol. 2, page 411, Copyright 1952, The New York Botanical Garden. DALEA VILLOSA SILKY PRAIRIE CLOVER Silky Prairie Clover is a perennial herb with ascending or lax, branched stems that are 20-35 cm high , and which arise from red-orange roots and a rootcrown. The alternate, pinnately compound leaves are 2-4 cm long and have 11-21 linear leaflets. The foliage has numerous sunken glands and is densely long and hairy. The pink to rose-purple flowers are densely crowded in cylindrical spikes that are 3-12 cm long, at the ends of stems and branches. Each flower is 4-6 mm long and has 4 separate petals, a densely spreading, hairy, 5-lobed, cup-shaped calyx, and 5 stamens that are usually longer than the petals. The narrowly egg-shaped pods are 2-3 mm long and densely long and hairy. Flowering in late July-August; fruiting in late August. Other DALEA in Montana usually have 11 or more leaflets, and are not as conspicuously hairy. The compination of the long, hairy calyx and the 5 stamens further separate this species from other DALEA and from species of PSORALEA and Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Vanderhorst, James P; Cooper, Stephen V; Heidel, Bonnie L; United States. Bureau of Land Management; Montana Natural Heritage Program. Helena, MT : Montana Natural Heritage Program
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