Plant Name
Scientific Name: Marina parryi
Synonym: Dalea parryi
Common Names: Parry's False Prairie-clover, Parry Dalea
Plant Characteristics
Duration: Perennial
Growth Habit: Subshrub, Herb/Forb
Arizona Native Status: Native
Habitat: Desert
Flower Color: Dark blue-purple and white (bicolored)
Flowering Season: Spring
Height: To 30 inches (76 cm) tall
Description: The flowers are in spike-like terminal racemes. The individual flowers are pea-like, 1/2 inch (1.3 cm) long, and dark violet above and white below. The leaves are grayish green and pinnately compound with an odd number of small, oval, rounded, or egg-shaped leaflets.
The similar San Pedro False Prairie-clover (Marina calycosa) is hairier and has more elongated (less rounded) leaflets.
Classification
Kingdom: Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision: Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division: Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class: Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Subclass: Rosidae
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae – Pea family
Genus: Marina Liebm. – false prairie-clover
Species: Marina parryi (Torr. & A. Gray) Barneby – Parry's false prairie-clover
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