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Santa Catalina prairie clover

Dalea pulchra

Santa Catalina prairie clover
Photo: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub, Perennial
Native range
S. Arizona to New Mexico and Mexico (Sonora)
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Dalea pulchra, the Santa Catalina prairie clover or indigo bush, is a perennial shrub or subshrub of the subfamily Faboideae in the pea family-(Fabaceae). It is found in the southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico in the states of Arizona, New Mexico, Sonora, and Chihuahua, in the Madrean sky islands region and associated areas.

Santa Catalina prairie clover can be found in some common resource locations, for example: Ironwood Forest National Monument of southern Arizona. It has deep purple flowers. As a shrub it can grow to 1.2 metres (4 ft) tall.

Other Dalea plants

Tampa prairie clover · Whitetassels · Whiteflower prairie clover · Golden prairie clover · South Texas prairie clover · White prairie clover · White prairie clover · Whitetassels · Cartagena prairie clover · Dalea chrysophylla · Andean Blue Clover · Compact prairie clover

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dalea pulchra by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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