Dalea hallii A. Gray

Parosela hallii (A. Gray) A. Heller, Bot. Expl Texas 49. 1895.
Dalea Hallii A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 8: 625. 1873.
A herbaceous perennial, with a woody caudex; stems slender, decumbent, 1-2 dm. high, strigose-canescent; leaves digitately ternate, 2-4 cm. long; stipules subulate, minute; petiole 1-1.5 cm. long, strigose; leaflets linear, acute or even minutely cuspidate, 1-2.5 cm. long, glabrous above, strigose-canescent beneath, obsoktely glandular-dotted; peduncles terminal, 1-2 cm. long; spikes at first dense, in age laxer, 1-4 cm. long; bracts ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, villous-canescent, equaling the calyx; calyx-tube turbinate, 2 mm. long, silky-canescent; lobes filiform from a broad base, silky-plumose, nearly twice as long as the tube ; corolla yellow, fading
rose-colored; blade of the banner flabelliform-reniform, 2 mm. long, shorter than the claw;
wings and keel-petals inserted below the middle of the staminal tube, the blades of the wings
3.5-4 mm. long, those of the keel-petals 5 mm. long; pods villous.
Type locality: Dallas, Texas. Distribution: Texas.