Parry's Marina

Parosela parryi (T. & G.) A. Heller, Cat. N. Am. PI. ed. 2
6. 1900.
Dalea divaricala cinerea A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 7: 336. 1868. Dalea Parryi T. & G.; A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 7: 397. 1868.
A suffruticose perennial; stem ashy-strigose, usually conspicuously glandular-punctate, 3-6 dm. high, branched; leaves 4—6 cm. long; stipules subulate, 2 mm. long; rachis grayishstrigose and glandular-punctate; stipels minute; leaflets 15-33, obovate or suborbicular, emarginate, strigose on both sides, 2-5 mm. long; peduncles terminal, 1-5 cm. long; racemes elongate, many-flowered, 3-8 cm. long; bracts lanceolate, acuminate, glandular-dentate, strigose; calyx strigose-canescent ; tube turbinate, strongly 10-ribbed, nearly 2 mm. long; upper 4 calyx-lobes ovate-oblong, acutish or obtuse, slightly shorter than the tube, the lowest one lanceolate, acute and larger; corolla violet, pale below; blade of the banner reniform, 1.5 mm. long, 2.5 mm. broad, the claw 1 mm. long; wings and keel-petals inserted towards the base of the staminal tube; blades of the former 3 mm. long, those of the latter similar, 4 mm. long, the claws of both 1.5 mm. long; pod broadly obliquely obovate, minutely puberulent, conspicuously punctate, with a short beak.
Type locality: Fort Mohave, California.
Distribution: Southern California and Arizona to Sonora and Lower California.

Perennial, Shrubs, Stems woody below, or from woody crown or caudex, Nodules present, Stems erect or ascending, Stems less than 1 m tall, Plants gland-dotted or with gland-tipped hairs, Stems solid, Stems or young twigs glabrous or sparsely glabrate, Stems or young twigs sparsely to densely hairy, Leaves alternate, Leaves petiolate, Stipules inconspicuous, absent, or caducous, Stipules reduced to glands, Leaves compound, Leaves odd pinnate, Leaf or leaflet margins entire, Leaflets opposite, L eaflets 5-9, Leaves glabrous or nearly so, Inflorescences racemes, Inflorescence axillary, Bracts very small, absent or caducous, Flowers zygomorphic, Calyx 5-lobed, Calyx gland-dotted or with glandular spot, Calyx hairy, Petals separate, Petals ochroleucous, cream colored, Petals blue, lavander to purple, or violet, Petals bicolored or with red, purple or yellow streaks or spots, Banner petal narrow or oblanceolate, Wing petals narrow, oblanceolate to oblong, Keel tips obtuse or rounded, not beaked, Stamens 9-10, Stamens monadelphous, united below, Filaments glabrous, Style terete, Fruit a legume, Fruit unilocular, Fruit indehiscent, Fruit oblong or ellipsoidal, Fruit orbicular to subglobose, Fruit enclosed in calyx, Fruit glabrous or glabrate, Fruit 1-seeded, Seeds ovoid to rounded in outline, Seed surface smooth, Seeds olive, brown, or black.

Marina parryi is a species of flowering plant in the legume family known by the common name Parry's false prairie-clover. It is native to the deserts of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. This is a perennial herb producing stiff, branching stems 20 to 80 centimeters long. It is coated with glands and rough hairs. The leaves are made up of several pairs of small oval leaflets no more than 6 millimeters long. The inflorescence is a raceme of deep blue and white bicolored flowers each under a centimeter long. The fruit is a legume pod containing a single seed.