Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fabales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (6/30/18):
Desmodium perplexum
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Desmodium perplexum
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 098-26-023:
Desmodium perplexum
FAMILY
Fabaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Desmodium glabellum
INCLUDED WITHIN
Guide to the Vascular Plants of the Blue Ridge (Wofford, 1989)
Desmodium paniculatum var. dillenii
(?)
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Meibomia dillenii
COMMON NAME:
Perplexing Tick-trefoil, Dillen's Tick-trefoil
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Look for it in fields, woodland borders, hammocks, disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & possibly Georgia
Documented growing wild in
GA
NC
SC
Common (uncommon in GA Mountains & Piedmont, rare in GA Coastal Plain)
LEAVES:
Odd-pinnately compound: 3 leaflets
Alternate
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rose-purplish
Bilaterally symmetrical
2-lipped calyx
5-parted papilionaceous corolla
10 stamens, diadelphous, 9 and 1
Superior ovary
Flowers in terminal panicles
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Loment with usually 2-4 broadly rhombic to triangular segments?
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
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