Species Information

Kingdom: Plantae
  Phylum: Anthophyta
    Class: Dicotyledoneae
      Order: Fabales
        Family: Fabaceae
          Genus: Pediomelum
            Species: pentaphyllum

Chihuahua Scurfpea - Pediomelum pentaphyllum

Chihuahua Scurfpea

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Species Extent (New Mexico)

General Description

Perennial herb up to about 25 cm tall, grayish-hairy with straight hairs that lie against the surface of the foliage; stems with a thin, cord-like, easily broken, subterranean portion bearing a few small bracts, and a very short aerial, leafy portion; root a deeply buried fusiform taproot; leaves with minute, dark, glandular dots, palmately (or very shortly pinnately) compound, with petioles 8-15 cm long; leaflets 5 (rarely 6), lanceolate, rhombic or oblanceolate, 2-5 cm long, the lower surface more densely hairy than upper; flowers in a dense ovoid grayish-hairy cluster 2-4 cm long, 2-2.5 cm wide, on a peduncle 4-9 cm long, each flower bilaterally symmetrical, pea-like, 14-18 mm long, purple; fruit a small pod 7-8 mm long, barely surpassing the calyx teeth. Flowers in April and May, and again in July and August, depending on rainfall.

Status

Global Rank: G1G2

State Rank: S1

State Status: E

Federal Status:

USFS Status:

BLM Status: BLM SENSITIVE

SWAP Status:

NMRP Strategy Status: Strategy Species

Observations in Natural Heritage New Mexico Database

Number of Subpopulations: 11

Number of Mapped Locations: 1151

Number of Observations: 1191

Observation date range: 05-01-1937 to 09-24-2014

External Links

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  NatureServe Explorer
  New Mexico Rare Plants Website
  Environmental Conservation Online System (ECOS)

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