§1 Plant
Dalea aurea Nutt. ex Pursh
vernacular golden prairie clover — species · Fabaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb, Subshrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Fabaceae Lindl.
- Genus
- Dalea
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 233 counties across 9 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 233 counties across 9 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 63 N ▾
- Barber 20007
- Barton 20009
- Butler 20015
- Chase 20017
- Clark 20025
- Clay 20027
- Cloud 20029
- Comanche 20033
- Cowley 20035
- Decatur 20039
- Dickinson 20041
- Edwards 20047
- Ellis 20051
- Ellsworth 20053
- Ford 20057
- Geary 20061
- Gove 20063
- Graham 20065
- Grant 20067
- Greeley 20071
- Hamilton 20075
- Harper 20077
- Hodgeman 20083
- Jewell 20089
- Kearny 20093
- Kingman 20095
- Kiowa 20097
- Lane 20101
- Lincoln 20105
- Logan 20109
- Marion 20115
- Meade 20119
- Mitchell 20123
- Morton 20129
- Ness 20135
- Norton 20137
- Osborne 20141
- Ottawa 20143
- Pawnee 20145
- Phillips 20147
- Pottawatomie 20149
- Pratt 20151
- Reno 20155
- Republic 20157
- Rice 20159
- Riley 20161
- Rooks 20163
- Rush 20165
- Russell 20167
- Saline 20169
- Scott 20171
- Seward 20175
- Sheridan 20179
- Sherman 20181
- Smith 20183
- Stanton 20187
- Stevens 20189
- Sumner 20191
- Thomas 20193
- Trego 20195
- Wallace 20199
- Washington 20201
- Wichita 20203
Nebraska view state ↗ 14 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 30 N ▾
- Alfalfa 40003
- Beaver 40007
- Beckham 40009
- Bryan 40013
- Caddo 40015
- Carter 40019
- Cimarron 40025
- Cleveland 40027
- Comanche 40031
- Custer 40039
- Garvin 40049
- Grady 40051
- Grant 40053
- Greer 40055
- Harmon 40057
- Harper 40059
- Jackson 40065
- Johnston 40069
- Kingfisher 40073
- Kiowa 40075
- Logan 40083
- Love 40085
- Major 40093
- Marshall 40095
- McClain 40087
- Murray 40099
- Oklahoma 40109
- Pawnee 40117
- Payne 40119
- Woods 40151
South Dakota view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 93 N ▾
- Armstrong 48011
- Atascosa 48013
- Bandera 48019
- Bee 48025
- Bell 48027
- Bexar 48029
- Brewster 48043
- Briscoe 48045
- Burnet 48053
- Caldwell 48055
- Callahan 48059
- Carson 48065
- Childress 48075
- Coke 48081
- Coleman 48083
- Collin 48085
- Comal 48091
- Comanche 48093
- Concho 48095
- Cooke 48097
- Coryell 48099
- Cottle 48101
- Crockett 48105
- Crosby 48107
- Culberson 48109
- Dallam 48111
- Dallas 48113
- Denton 48121
- DeWitt 48123
- Dickens 48125
- Donley 48129
- Eastland 48133
- Edwards 48137
- Fayette 48149
- Floyd 48153
- Frio 48163
- Garza 48169
- Gillespie 48171
- Goliad 48175
- Gray 48179
- Grayson 48181
- Grimes 48185
- Hall 48191
- Hamilton 48193
- Hays 48209
- Hemphill 48211
- Hutchinson 48233
- Irion 48235
- Jackson 48239
- Jeff Davis 48243
- Karnes 48255
- Kerr 48265
- Kimble 48267
- Kinney 48271
- Lampasas 48281
- Lipscomb 48295
- Llano 48299
- Lubbock 48303
- Mason 48319
- Maverick 48323
- McLennan 48309
- Medina 48325
- Menard 48327
- Mitchell 48335
- Montague 48337
- Motley 48345
- Ochiltree 48357
- Oldham 48359
- Palo Pinto 48363
- Parker 48367
- Pecos 48371
- Potter 48375
- Presidio 48377
- Randall 48381
- Real 48385
- Roberts 48393
- Runnels 48399
- San Saba 48411
- Shackelford 48417
- Sutton 48435
- Tarrant 48439
- Taylor 48441
- Terrell 48443
- Tom Green 48451
- Travis 48453
- Uvalde 48463
- Val Verde 48465
- Washington 48477
- Wichita 48485
- Williamson 48491
- Wilson 48493
- Wise 48497
- Young 48503
Wyoming view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/DAAU ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/8245472 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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