Dalea_formosa

<i>Dalea formosa</i>

Dalea formosa

Species of plant

Dalea formosa is a species of flowering plant in the genus Dalea, known by the common names feather dalea and featherplume;[1] it is named for the physician Samuel Dale.[2] The plant is native to the southern United States.[2] It is highly tolerant of heat, cold, and drought.[3][4] It is favored by honeybees; but of much less use to most wildlife, with the exception of rabbits and deer.[5][6] Unique to most plants,[Note 1] it blooms all year long (with the occurrence of monsoon rainfall)[7][8] and also has a long lifespan.[4]

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References

  1. [1]
    Southwest, The American. "Western USA wildflowers: Feather Peabush, Dalea Formosa". www.americansouthwest.net.
  2. [2]
    "SEINet Portal Network - Dalea formosa". swbiodiversity.org.
  3. [3]
    "Dalea formosa". Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center - The University of Texas at Austin.
  4. [4]
    "USDA Plants Database". plants.usda.gov.
  5. [5]
    "Plants of Texas Rangelands » Feather Dalea". rangeplants.tamu.edu.
  6. [6]
    Xerces Society. Native plants for pollinators and beneficial insects: Southwest - Sonoran Desert Retrieved July 27, 2023
  7. [7]
    "Blue Wildflowers - Big Bend National Park (U.S. National Park Service)". www.nps.gov.
  8. [8]
    "Dalea formosa, Indigobush, Southwest Desert Flora".

Explanatory notes

  1. [N 1]
    Generally, plants expend considerable energy to bloom and that decreases their lifespan or the duration of their bloom, or both; especially in hot regions. Blooming flowers expend considerable energy through nectar production, water loss via transpiration, and respiration of flower parts (Schoen & Ashman, 1994). “Interestingly, flower lifespan is negatively correlated with temperature; the hotter the environment where they bloom, the shorter the period a plant retains them. The phenomenon has been known for a long time,” comments Shoko Sakai, author of the present study.
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