Dalea cahaba

Get help with this component

Distribution Map: Based on vouchered plant specimens only. View county names by placing the mouse cursor over a particular county.

Species Distribution Map
Family:FABACEAE
Species:Dalea cahaba J.R. Allison
Common Name:Cahaba Prairie Clover
Habitat:Dolomite glades in Bibb County.
Associated Ecological Communities:**
Growth Habit:Herb
Duration:Perennial
Category:Vascular
USDA Symbol:**
Plant Notes:Cahaba Prairie Clover is a native herbaceous perennial in the Bean family (Fabaceae). It is endemic to a zone approximately 18 km long and 0.8 km wide in Bibb County in Alabama. Cahaba Prairie Clover occurs on Ketona Dolomite Glades in thin-soiled areas dominated by grasses and other herbaceous vegetation. Cahaba Prairie Clover is a perennial with a thick, elongate taproot. Several decumbent or weakly ascending stems are produced from each rootstock. The stems are green or reddish in color, striate-ribbed, and simple or branched near the base. The stems are glabrous or inconspicuously pubescent with short, spreading or somewhat appressed hairs. Leaves are alternate and odd-pinnate with 3-5 leaflets. The leaflets are linear to linear-oblanceolate in outline, involute or folded, dark green in color, and aromatic. Flowers are produced in terminal spikes on long peduncles. Involucre bracts are absent, interfloral bracts pilosulous along the keel and margins and equaling or longer than the calyx. The calyx is shortly pubescent with sinuous, interwoven hairs. The corolla has 5 rose-purple petals. The fruit is an indehiscent legume that is enclosed in the persistent calyx. Cahaba Prairie Clover is listed as an S2 species in Alabama (Imperiled in state) and globally as a G2 species (At high risk of extinction).—A. Diamond
Taxonomic Notes:**
Status:Native, Endemic, S2 (State Rank), G2 (Global Rank)
References:**
Specimen: View specimen details in the Alabama Herbarium Consortium Specimen Database

** Not applicable or data not available.

Classification

FamilyFABACEAE - Pea/Bean family
Genus Dalea
Species Dalea cahaba J.R. Allison - Cahaba Prairie Clover

Citation

Citation Dalea cahaba J.R. Allison, Castanea 66(1–2): 166–169, f. 5. 2001.
Basionym: **
Type: ALABAMA: Bibb Co.: ca. 20.5 km NE of Centreville. "County Road 10 Glade," Ketona Dolomite outcrop ca. 2.0 km ENE of the mouth of Four Mile Creek, 1 May 1994, James R. Allison and Timothy E. Stevens 8236 (holotype, NY; isotypes: AUA, DUKE, FSU, GA, GH, JSU, MICH, MO, UNA, US, VDB).

** Not applicable or data not available.

Synonyms

No synonyms exist for this species.

Specimens and Distribution

This species has been reported in the following counties by the herbaria listed. An overview of the individual specimens are provided in the table that follows. Click on the accession number to view details; click on column headers to sort; choose a county or herbaria to filter the specimen data.

Counties included on distribution map: Bibb

Counties represented by specimen data listed below:

Herbaria represented by specimen data listed below: ALNHS, AUA, BRIT, SAMF, UNA, UWAL

Range of years during which specimens were collected: 1995 - 1995

Barcode / Accession No. County Coll. Date Collector &
Collection No.		 Herbarium &
Herbarium Name Used		 Image
UWAL0037561 Bibb 13 Jun 1993 Allison, James (Jim) R.
7739		 UWAL
Dalea cahaba J. Allison
UNA00060031 Bibb 13 Jun 1993 Allison, James R.
7718		 UNA
Dalea cahaba J. R. Allison
AUA000011377 Bibb 19 Jul 1992 Allison, James R.
6876		 AUA
Dalea Cahaba J. Allison
UWAL0052198 Bibb 14 May 2018 Keener, Brian R.
10651		 UWAL
Dalea cahaba J.R. Allison
ALNHS00005945 Bibb 14 May 2018 Barger, T. Wayne
SP#3828		 ALNHS
Dalea cahaba J.R. Allison
UNA00060020 Bibb 19 Jul 1992 Allison, James R.
6876		 UNA
Dalea cahaba J. R. Allison
UNA00025928 Bibb 21 May 1995 Ginzbarg, Steven L.
987		 UNA
Dalea cahaba J. R. Allison
AUA000011374 Bibb 8 May 1998 Allison, James R.
10649		 AUA
Dalea Cahaba J. Allison
UNA00060043 Bibb 08 May 1998 Allison, James R.
10349		 UNA
Dalea cahaba J. R. Allison
ALNHS00003674 Bibb 1 Sep 2015 Barger, T. Wayne
SP#1992		 ALNHS
Dalea cahaba J. Allison
AUA000011376 Bibb 13 Jun 1993 Allison, James R.
7718		 AUA
Dalea Cahaba J. Allison
UNA00060063 Bibb 01 May 1994 Allison, James R.
8236		 UNA
Dalea cahaba J. R. Allison
AUA000030955 Bibb 1 May 1994 Allison, James R.
8236		 AUA
Dalea Cahaba J. Allison
UNA00027577 Bibb _ Aug _ Smith, Dr. John
s.n.		 UNA
Dalea cahaba J. R. Allison
SAMF0000728 Bibb 18 May 2011 Davenport, Lawrence J.
4679		 SAMF
Dalea cahaba J. R. Allison
BRIT54401 Bibb 08 May 1998 Allison, James (Jim) R.
10649		 BRIT
Dalea cahaba J.R. Allison
UNA00060040 Bibb 28 May 1994 Allison, James R.
8338		 UNA
Dalea cahaba J. R. Allison
UNA00060032 Bibb 14 Jun 1993 Allison, James R.
7753		 UNA
Dalea cahaba J. R. Allison
AUA000011375 Bibb 28 May 1994 Allison, James R.
8338		 AUA
Dalea Cahaba J. Allison
First Page Previous Page Next Page Last Page
Records per Page: