Psorothamnus schottii

Psorothamnus schottii is a species of flowering plant in the legume family known by the common name Schott's dalea.[1] It is native to the Sonoran Deserts of northern Mexico and adjacent sections of Arizona and the Colorado Desert in California.

Psorothamnus schottii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
(unranked):
Angiosperms
(unranked):
Eudicots
(unranked):
Rosids
Order:
Fabales
Family:
Fabaceae
Subfamily:
Faboideae
Genus:
Psorothamnus
Species:
P. schottii
Binomial name
Psorothamnus schottii
Synonyms

Dalea schottii

Description

Psorothamnus schottii is a shrub approaching two meters in maximum height. Its highly branching stems are green to woolly gray-green and glandular. The gland-pitted linear leaves are up to 3 centimeters long and not divided into leaflets.

The inflorescence is an open raceme of up to 15 flowers. Each flower has a deep purple blue pealike corolla up to a centimeter long in a glandular tubular calyx of sepals with pointed lobes. The fruit is a legume pod coated in glands and containing one seed.

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References
  1. "Psorothamnus schottii". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved 15 October 2015.


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