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§1 Plant
Dalea formosa Torr.
vernacular featherplume — species · Fabaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub, Subshrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Fabaceae Lindl.
- Genus
- Dalea
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 114 counties across 5 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- High
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Low
- Fire
- Medium
- Salinity
- Medium
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -13 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 160 min.
- Precipitation
- 12–20 in/yr
- pH range
- 5.5–7.5
- Root depth
- 16 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Multiple Stem
- Growth rate
- Slow
- Lifespan
- Long
- Mature height
- 3 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 3 ft
- Foliage texture
- Fine
- Foliage colour
- Gray-Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Moderate
- Flower colour
- Purple
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- Medium
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Indeterminate
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Spring
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Propagation
- seed, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Contracting Only
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Medium
- Graze palatability
- Medium
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 114 counties across 5 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 2 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 28 N ▾
- Bernalillo 35001
- Catron 35003
- Chaves 35005
- Cibola 35006
- Colfax 35007
- Curry 35009
- De Baca 35011
- Dona Ana 35013
- Eddy 35015
- Grant 35017
- Guadalupe 35019
- Harding 35021
- Hidalgo 35023
- Lea 35025
- Lincoln 35027
- Los Alamos 35028
- Luna 35029
- Otero 35035
- Quay 35037
- Rio Arriba 35039
- Roosevelt 35041
- San Miguel 35047
- Sandoval 35043
- Santa Fe 35049
- Sierra 35051
- Socorro 35053
- Torrance 35057
- Union 35059
Oklahoma view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 70 N ▾
- Andrews 48003
- Armstrong 48011
- Bailey 48017
- Borden 48033
- Brewster 48043
- Briscoe 48045
- Carson 48065
- Childress 48075
- Crane 48103
- Crockett 48105
- Crosby 48107
- Culberson 48109
- Dallam 48111
- Dawson 48115
- Deaf Smith 48117
- Dickens 48125
- Dimmit 48127
- Donley 48129
- Ector 48135
- Edwards 48137
- El Paso 48141
- Floyd 48153
- Foard 48155
- Garza 48169
- Gillespie 48171
- Glasscock 48173
- Gray 48179
- Hall 48191
- Hansford 48195
- Hardeman 48197
- Hartley 48205
- Hemphill 48211
- Howard 48227
- Hudspeth 48229
- Hutchinson 48233
- Irion 48235
- Jeff Davis 48243
- Jim Hogg 48247
- Kimble 48267
- Knox 48275
- Lipscomb 48295
- Loving 48301
- Lubbock 48303
- Martin 48317
- Midland 48329
- Mitchell 48335
- Moore 48341
- Motley 48345
- Nolan 48353
- Ochiltree 48357
- Oldham 48359
- Pecos 48371
- Potter 48375
- Presidio 48377
- Randall 48381
- Reagan 48383
- Reeves 48389
- Roberts 48393
- Scurry 48415
- Sterling 48431
- Stonewall 48433
- Sutton 48435
- Taylor 48441
- Terrell 48443
- Upton 48461
- Val Verde 48465
- Webb 48479
- Wichita 48485
- Winkler 48495
- Zapata 48505
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/DAFO ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5353250 ↗Record version
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