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Bloom Time: Mid Spring Late Spring/Early Summer Mid Summer Blooms repeatedly
Foliage: Herbaceous Velvet/Fuzzy-Textured
Other details: May be a noxious weed or invasive This plant is attractive to bees, butterflies and/or birds Drought-tolerant; suitable for xeriscaping Self-sows freely; deadhead if you do not want volunteer seedlings next season This plant may be considered a protected species; check before digging or gathering seeds
Soil pH requirements: 5.6 to 6.0 (acidic) 6.1 to 6.5 (mildly acidic) 6.6 to 7.5 (neutral) 7.6 to 7.8 (mildly alkaline) 7.9 to 8.5 (alkaline) 8.6 to 9.0 (strongly alkaline)
On Jun 22, 2009, TexasPuddyPrint from Edinburg, TX wrote:
Found several of these plants growing wild at the ranch. We're always under drought conditions but it seems the good dose of rain we got a month ago helped the native plants and weeds to sprout and/or start bloom. A wonderful thing as I probably never would have noticed these plants.
Am thrilled as this is one of the larval host/caterpillar food plant for the Reakirt's Blue butterfly!!!
On Mar 5, 2007, rosemarysims from Mermentau, LA (Zone 8b) wrote:
I grew this plant in New Orleans for many years and just loved it. It is a real insect attracter - sometimes the whole bush would shimmer and shudder with all the insects nectaring on it. Butterflies, bees, you name it. Copious rain did not seem to bother it but it was in a very well drained place over an old underground cellar. It was over 3' tall, about 4' wide under those conditions, with a nicely rounded shape.
On Jul 23, 2005, htop from San Antonio, TX (Zone 8b) wrote:
Golden Dalea is, a native perennial, is an upright, woody, taprooted plant. It is a legume which is found on the sandy or limestone soils of open prairies and pastures. In Texas, it is found in the Edwards Plateau and South Texas Plains regions. It is about 12-30 inches in height. It is single-stemmed or sometimes branched above. The stem has a whitish-green appearance due to silky pubescence. The leaves are oddly-pinnate, alternate, covered with dense hair and are dotted with glands and .5 to 2.0 inches long (smaller on the top of the plant). Each leaf has 3 to 9 obovate leaflets that are grayish-green, around .25 to .5 inch long, blunt tipped or often mucronate (tipped with a short, slender, sharp point). The foiage is sparse which probably helps it tolerate high heat and drought. It flowers from late May through July (in some areas, April through June).
It has a solitary silky-gray terminal spike that is oblong or cone-like, covered with minute, silky hairs, densely flowered and 5 to 2.5 inches long. The blooms encircle the spike and bloom from the base upward a few at a time. The 3/8 to 1/2 inch long blooms have a yellow corolla with five petals and ten united stamens. The calyx is densely silky-pubescent with the calyx lobes having pointed tips and feathered margins. found in both the The leaves and flowers are eaten by white-tailed deer.
Regional...
This plant has been said to grow in the following regions:
New Orleans, Louisiana San Antonio, Texas (2 reports) San Isidro, Texas
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