Dalea pinnata (J. F. Gmel.) Barneby

Kuhnistera pinnata (Walt.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 192. 1891
Anonymus pinnalus Walt. Fl. Car. 103. 1788.
Kuhnislera caroliniensis Lam. Encyc. 3: 370. 1789.
Petalostemon corymbosus Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 50. 1803.
Dalea Kuhnistera Willd. Sp. PI. 3: 1337. 1803.
Psoralea corymbosa Poir. in Lam. Encyc. 5: 694. 1804.
Dalea corymbosa Poir. Diet. Sci. Nat. 12: 462. 1818.
Galesia alabamensis Bertol. Novi Comm. Bonon. 9: 213. 1849.
Petalostemon corymbosus trifoliatus Chapm. Fl. S. U. S. ed. 3. 101. 1897.
A perennial, with a long slender tap-root; steins solitary or a few 3-11 dm. high, corymbosely branched above, glabrous; leaves 1-2 cm. long, spreading, glabrous, usually with smaller ones fascicled in their axils; stipules minute, subulate; leaflets 3-7, linear-filiform, 5-10 mm. long, less than 0.5 mm. thick; outer empty bracts purplish-brown, broadly ovate, nearly orbicular, ciliolate, the inner subtending the flowers much smaller, oblong; calyx-tube scarcely 2 mm. long, silky; lobes 5-6 mm. long; petals white, the blades oblong, acute at each end, about 4 mm. long; pod 2 mm. long, densely pubescent.
Type locality: Carolina.
Distribution: North Carolina to Florida and Mississippi.

Perennial, Herbs, Taproot present, Nodules present, Stems erect or ascending, Stems less than 1 m tall, Plants gland-dotted or with gland-tipped hairs, Stems solid, Stems or young twigs glabrous or sparsely glabrate, Leaves alternate, Leaves petiolate, Stipules inconspicuous, absent, or caducous, Stipules setiform, subulate or acicular, Stipules deciduous, Stipules free, Leaves comp ound, Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate, Leaves odd pinnate, Leaf or leaflet margins entire, Leaflets opposite, Leaflets 3, Leaflets 5-9, Leaves glabrous or nearly so, Inflorescences spikes or spike-like, Inflorescence terminal, Bracts conspicuously present, Bracteoles present, Calyx 5-lobed, Calyx hairy, Petals separate, Petals clawed, Petals white, Banner petal narrow or oblanceolate, Banner petal ovoid or obovate, Wing petals narrow, oblanceolate to oblong, Wing tips obtuse or rounded, Keel tips obtuse or rounded, not beaked, Fertile stamens 5, Stamens monadelphous, united below, Filaments glabrous, Style terete, Fruit a legume, Fruit unilocular, Fruit indehiscent, Fruit elongate, straight, Fruit oblong or ellipsoidal, Fruit enclosed in calyx, Fruit glabrous or glabrate, Fruit 1-seeded, Seeds reniform, Seeds cordiform, mit-shaped, notched at one end, Seed surface smooth, Seeds olive, brown, or black.

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