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Psorothamnus
''Psorothamnus'' is a genus of plants in the legume family. These are shrubs and small trees. Many are known by the general common name indigo bush. Some are referred to as daleas, as this genus was once included in genus ''Dalea''. These are generally thorny, thickly branched, strongly scented bushes. Most species bear lupinlike raceme inflorescences of bright purple legume flowers and gland-rich pods. ''Psorothamnus'' species are native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. The genus is paraphyletic In taxonomy (general), taxonomy, a group is paraphyletic if it consists of the group's most recent common ancestor, last common ancestor and most of its descendants, excluding a few Monophyly, monophyletic subgroups. The group is said to be pa ... and it has been proposed that the genus ''Psorodendron'' be reinstated to accommodate sections ''Xylodalea'', ''Capnodendron'', and ''Winnemucca''. Species ''Psorothamnus'' comprises the following species: * '' Psoro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dalea
''Dalea'' is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. Members of the genus are commonly known as prairie clover or indigo bush. Its name honors English apothecary Samuel Dale (1659–1739). They are native to the Western hemisphere, where they are distributed from Canada to Argentina. Nearly half of the known species are endemic to Mexico. Two species of ''Dalea'' (''Dalea ornata'' and ''Dalea searlsiae'') have been considered for rangeland restoration. Species ''Dalea'' comprises the following species: * '' Dalea abietifolia'' (Rydb.) Bullock * '' Dalea acracarpica'' Barneby * '' Dalea adenopoda'' (Rydb.) Isely—Tampa prairie clover * '' Dalea aenigma'' Barneby * '' Dalea albiflora'' A. Gray—whiteflower prairie clover * '' Dalea ananassa'' Barneby * '' Dalea antana'' J.F. Macbr. * '' Dalea arenicola'' (Wemple) B.L. Turner * '' Dalea aurea'' C. Fraser—golden prairie clover * '' Dalea austrotexana'' B.L.Turner * ''Dalea ayavacens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Psorothamnus Fremontii
''Psorothamnus fremontii'', the Fremont's dalea or Fremont's indigo bush (after John C. Frémont) is a perennial legume shrub. Distribution ''Psorothamnus fremontii'' is common to the Southwestern United States and northwest Mexico - in the states of California, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona, Sonora, and Baja California. The plant is found in the Sonoran Deserts (including the Colorado Desert), the Great Basin Deserts, and the Mojave Desert sky island Sky islands are isolated mountains surrounded by radically different lowland environments. The term originally referred to those found on the Mexican Plateau, and has extended to similarly isolated high-elevation forests. The isolation has ...s, from in elevation. References External links Calflora Database: ''Psorothamnus fremontii'' (Fremont indigobush, Fremont's dalea, Fremont's indigo bush) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Psorothamnus Polydenius
''Psorothamnus polydenius'' is a species of flowering plant in the legume family known by the common names Nevada dalea and Nevada indigobush. It is native to the deserts of the southwestern United States from the Mojave Desert in California to Utah. Description ''Psorothamnus polydenius'' is a shrub sometimes exceeding one meter in height. Its highly branching stems taper to twigs coated in soft, rough, or silky hairs and visible glands. The small leaves are each made up of a few pairs of oval or rounded leaflets each a few millimeters long. The inflorescence is a dense raceme or spikelike cluster of several flowers. Each flower has a pinkish purple pealike corolla about half a centimeter long in a glandular calyx of sepals with pointed lobes. The fruit is a small legume pod containing one seed. One variety of this species, ''Psorothamnus polydenius'' var. ''jonesii'', is endemic to Utah Utah ( , ) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Psorothamnus Arborescens
''Psorothamnus arborescens'' is a species of flowering plant in the legume family known by the common name Mojave indigo bush. Distribution ''Psorothamnus arborescens'' is native to southwestern North America, where it can be found in many types of desert and dry mountainous habitats. It grows at in elevation.Jepson: ''P. arborescens'' . accessed 12.1.2011 It is found in the n and , south into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Psorothamnus Spinosus
''Psorothamnus spinosus'', or ''Delea spinosa'', is a perennial legume tree of the deserts in North America. Common names include smokethorn, smoketree, smoke tree, smokethorn dalea, and corona de Cristo. Distribution ''P. Spinosus'' is native to the desert washes in the Colorado Desert in Southern California, the Sonoran Desert in western Arizona, and most of eastern Baja California state including several northern Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez) islands, The tree is common in Joshua Tree National Park, where it is called the smoketree. The range of ''P. spinosus'' is centered north-south along the Lower Colorado River Valley ranging northwest into the eastern Mojave Desert, west into mostly all of the Colorado Desert-(subsection of Sonoran Desert), and east of the Colorado River in southwestern Arizona's Sonoran Desert. To the west in Baja California it borders the western Gulf of California; it occurs on the islands there including Isla Ángel de la Guarda, but not Tibu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Psorothamnus Schottii
''Psorothamnus schottii'' is a species of flowering plant in the legume family known by the common name Schott's dalea. It is native to the Sonoran Deserts of northern Mexico and adjacent sections of Arizona and the Colorado Desert in California. 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 A legume () is a plant in the family Fabaceae (or Leguminosae), or the fruit or seed of such a plant. When used as a dry grain, the seed is also called a pulse. Legumes are grown agriculturally, primarily for human consumption, for livestock fo ... pod coated in glands and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Psorothamnus Emoryi
''Psorothamnus emoryi'', common names dyebush, white dalea, or Emory's indigo bush, is a perennial legume shrub or subshrub common to the desert mesas of the southern part of the U.S. states of Arizona and California, and regions of the Mexican state of Baja California. Description The ''Psorothamnus emoryi'' shrub grows to 3-. The leaves are hairy and grayish white, a color helping reflect sunlight. It has terminal clusters of purple and white pea-like flower. It flowers from March to June, and persists until the hottest and driest weather prevails near early or midsummer. Uses The plant is fragrant and oily and has been used for dyes and stain A stain is a discoloration that can be clearly distinguished from the surface, material, or medium it is found upon. They are caused by the chemical or physical interaction of two dissimilar materials. Accidental staining may make materials app ...s. ReferencesCalflora Database: ''Psorothamnus emoryi'' (Emory Dalea, Emory indigo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Psorothamnus Scoparius
''Psorothamnus scoparius'' is a thornless bush in the bean family ( Fabaceae), native to North America. It is known as broom smokebush and broom dalea. Distribution and habitat ''Psorothamnus scoparius'' is native to the southwestern United States, from western Texas through New Mexico to eastern Arizona, and the northernmost western regions of Mexico. The shrub typically grows in high deserts at elevations of , centered in the sand scrub communities of the Chihuahuan Desert ecoregion but extending into the Little Colorado River valley of northeastern Arizona, at lower elevations of the Colorado Plateau The Colorado Plateau, also known as the Colorado Plateau Province, is a physiographic and desert region of the Intermontane Plateaus, roughly centered on the Four Corners region of the southwestern United States. This province covers an area .... Description Broom dalea is a short shrub with cyan colored branches and small purple flowers. References {{Taxonbar, from=Q15 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
