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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
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
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Desmodium lineatum FAMILY Fabaceae
Matted Tick-trefoil, Sand Tick-trefoil
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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JK Marlow jkm190520_8570
May Greenville County SC
Stipules lance-attenuate to linear-subulate, striate, 2-5mm long, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
JK Marlow jkm200531_5457
May Greenville County SC
Unusual in the genus in that it "crawls" though not technically a vine, per Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
JK Marlow jkm200531_5462
May Greenville County SC
Stems to 2' long, prostrate/trailing, with leaves quite small for the genus, per Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
JK Marlow jkm190830_1073
August Greenville County SC
Distinguished by prostrate habit & small lvs w mostly suborbicular leaflets, per Leguminosae (Fabaceae), vol 3, part 2, Vascular flora of the southeastern United States (Isely, 1990).
JK Marlow jkm190831_1102
August Greenville County SC
Pedicels 6-16mm long; petals 4-6mm long, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
COMPARE
Beggar's Lice (Tick-trefoil) species
JK Marlow jkm190831_1111
August Greenville County SC
Loment segments convex above, symmetrically rounded below, per Leguminosae (Fabaceae), vol 3, part 2, Vascular flora of the southeastern United States (Isely, 1990).
COMPARE
loments of Desmodium species
JK Marlow jkm200903_7088
September Greenville County SC
Stems trailing vinelike along the ground, per Weakley's Flora (2020).