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Learn more about Perplexing Tick-trefoil from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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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
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
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-26-023:
Desmodium perplexum
FAMILY
Fabaceae
(?)
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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