Dalea tomentosa(Cav.) Willd.

WFO wfo-0000170478 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Dalea tomentosa, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. a Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / 2014-12-23 / obs. 31345286
Dalea tomentosa, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. b Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 31345282
Dalea tomentosa, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. c Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 31345281
Dalea tomentosa, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. d Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 31345285
Dalea tomentosa, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. e Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 31345284

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Native range 9 botanical countries

Regions where Dalea tomentosa is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua Mexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico NorthwestMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestGuatemalaHondurasNicaragua
Native distribution of Dalea tomentosa, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Mexico Central MXC NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Northwest MXN
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS
Guatemala GUA SOUTHERN AMERICA
Honduras HON
Nicaragua NIC

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 19 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Dalea argentea Mart.
  • Dalea argentea G.Don
  • Dalea onobrychioides Moc. & Sessé ex DC.
  • Dalea psoraleoides Moric.
  • Dalea querceti Harms
  • Dalea verbenacea Schltdl. & Cham.
  • Dalea verbenacea Schltdl. & Cham.
  • Dalea verbenacea var. sericea Cham. & Schltdl.
  • Dalea verbenacea var. sericea Schltdl. & Cham.
  • Dalea vulcanicola Donn.Sm.
  • Lotodes tomentosa (Cav.) Kuntze
  • Parosela psoraleoides (Moric.) Rose
  • Parosela psoralioides (Moric.) Rose
  • Parosela tomentosa (Cav.) Rose
  • Parosela tomentosa var. psoraleoides (Moric.) J.F.Macbr.
  • Petalostemon chiapense Brandegee
  • Psoralea tomentosa Cav.
  • Rhynchodium sericeum C.Presl
  • Rhynchosia cephalotes Steud.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.