Monday, April 8, 2019

Olneya tesota (Desert Ironwood)


  3/15/19 Desert Lily Sanctuary, Desert Center, Chuckwalla Valley, E. Riverside County, CA

 3/15/19 Desert Lily Sanctuary, Desert Center, Chuckwalla Valley, E. Riverside County, CA

 3/15/19 Desert Lily Sanctuary, Desert Center, Chuckwalla Valley, E. Riverside County, CA

LIFE LIST NOTES:

COMMON NAME: Desert Ironwood

SPECIES: Olneya tesota

FAMILY: Fabaceae (Pea Family)

LIFE LIST DATE: 3/15/19

LOCATION: Desert Lily Sanctuary, Desert Center, Chuckwalla Valley,  
E. Riverside County, CA

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Treatment from Jepson eFlora:
NATIVE

Habit: Shrub, tree, generally armed, canescent. 

Leaf: even-1-pinnate, alternate or clustered; stipular spines breaking off, leaving scar, occasionally 0; leaflets 8--21, +- opposite, obovate or elliptic, thick; axis extending beyond leaflets, pointed. 

Inflorescence: raceme, axillary, 2--many-flowered. 

Flower: corolla 10--14 mm, wings purple-pink suffused with white, banner, keel yellow-white to pink or purple; 9 filaments fused, 1 free. 

Fruit: slowly dehiscent, oblong or elliptic, plump, generally narrowed between seeds, persistent. 

Seed: 1--3. 

Ecology: Often abundant in washes; 

Elevation: < 1300 m. 


Distribution Outside California: Arizona, Mexico. 

Flowering Time: Apr--May 

Jepson eFlora Author: Matt Lavin & Duane Isely

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