Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Matted 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 (5/21/15):
Desmodium lineatum
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Desmodium lineatum
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-26-008:
Desmodium lineatum
FAMILY
Fabaceae
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Meibomia arenicola
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Meibomia polymorpha
COMMON NAME:
Matted Tick-trefoil, Sand Tick-trefoil
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Look for it in sandhills and other dry forests and woodlands, per Weakley's Flora
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in
GA
NC
SC
Common in Coastal Plain, uncommon in Piedmont, rare in Mountains
...Dry
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 usually in terminal panicles and axillary racemes
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Loment usually with 2-3 segments
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
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