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§1 Plant
Dalea frutescens A. Gray
vernacular black prairie clover — species · Fabaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub, Subshrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Fabaceae Lindl.
- Genus
- Dalea
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 52 counties across 3 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 52 counties across 3 states/territories.
New Mexico view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 46 N ▾
- Bell 48027
- Bexar 48029
- Blanco 48031
- Bosque 48035
- Brewster 48043
- Burnet 48053
- Comal 48091
- Coryell 48099
- Crockett 48105
- Culberson 48109
- Dallas 48113
- Dickens 48125
- Edwards 48137
- Erath 48143
- Garza 48169
- Gillespie 48171
- Hamilton 48193
- Hays 48209
- Howard 48227
- Irion 48235
- Jeff Davis 48243
- Johnson 48251
- Jones 48253
- Kendall 48259
- Kerr 48265
- Kinney 48271
- Lampasas 48281
- Maverick 48323
- Medina 48325
- Montague 48337
- Parker 48367
- Pecos 48371
- Presidio 48377
- Real 48385
- Stonewall 48433
- Sutton 48435
- Tarrant 48439
- Taylor 48441
- Terrell 48443
- Travis 48453
- Upton 48461
- Uvalde 48463
- Val Verde 48465
- Williamson 48491
- Wise 48497
- Zavala 48507
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/DAFR2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5353200 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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