Psorothamnus schottii
{{Short description|Species of legume}}
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|image = Psorothamnus schottii (joedecruyenaere) 002.jpg
|genus = Psorothamnus
|species = schottii
|synonyms = Dalea schottii
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Psorothamnus schottii is a species of flowering plant in the legume family known by the common name Schott's dalea.{{PLANTS|id=PSSC5|taxon=Psorothamnus schottii|accessdate=15 October 2015}} 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 pod coated in glands and containing one seed.
References
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External links
- [http://www.calflora.org/cgi-bin/species_query.cgi?where-calrecnum=6927 CalFlora Database: Psorothamnus schottii (Schott indigobush, Schott's dalea, Schott's indigo bush)]
- [http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=40164 Jepson Manual eFlora (TJM2) treatment of Psorothamnus schottii]
- [https://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=PSSC5 USDA Plants Profile for Psorothamnus schottii]
- [http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?query_src=photos_index&where-taxon=Psorothamnus+schottii UC Photos gallery — Psorothamnus schottii]
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Category:Flora of the California desert regions
Category:Flora of Northwestern Mexico
Category:Flora of the Sonoran Deserts
Category:Natural history of the Colorado Desert
Category:Flora without expected TNC conservation status
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