Parry Dalea
Parry's False Prairie Clover
Marina (Dalea) parryi
Watercolor from live specimen found in the Maricopa Co., Arizona.
FLOWERS: Delicate purple and whitish pea-flowers arranged into delicate
spikes.
SHRUB: A small suffrutescent (barely shrubby) plant with frail stems;
plants rarely rising more than 30 cm from ground.
UNARMED
LEAVES: Pinately compound leaves with an odd number of 5 to 13 leaflets.
FRUIT: small single seeded pod.
RANGE: This is a very common plant is found in southwestern Arizona and
Sonora. It is so small an thin however that it requires sometimes carefull
searching best done in mid to late spring.