Figure 5. Dalea cahaba

 

A. Habit (shown as more erect than is natural, so as to fit the page), X1/3, detail showing sulcate stem. 

B. Leaf, X2, detail showing lower surface. 

C. Two spikes, X1, one globose, one cylindrical. 

D. Flower, with interfloral bract, X4 1/2. 

E. Bracts, X9, interfloral (left) and basal (right). 

F. Calyx, X6 1/2. 

G. Pod (upper) and seed (lower), both X12 1/2. 

 

Drawing by Vicky Holifield.