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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fabales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Desmodium viridiflorum
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Desmodium viridiflorum
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-26-018:
Desmodium viridiflorum
FAMILY
Fabaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Desmodium viridiflorum
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Meibomia viridiflora
COMMON NAME:
Velvety Tick-trefoil, Velvety Tick-clover
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Look for it in fields, woodland borders, disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora
Subshrub; Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in
GA
NC
SC
Common (uncommon in GA 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 in terminal panicles
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Loment with 4 or more angular segments
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Desmodium viridiflorum FAMILY Fabaceae
Velvety Tick-trefoil, Velvety Tick-clover
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Velvety Tick-trefoil from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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JK Marlow jkm170624_275
June Oconee County SC
Sumter National Forest: Andrew Pickens Ranger District
JK Marlow jkm170624_276
June Oconee County SC
Sumter National Forest: Andrew Pickens Ranger District
JK Marlow jkm140804_350
August Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
Stems sparsely to densely-puberulent as well as uncinate-pubescent, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
JK Marlow jkm140804_353
August Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
Leaves densely villous on the lower surface, per Weakley's Flora (2012).
COMPARE
Beggar's Lice (Tick-trefoil) species
JK Marlow jkm140804_353b
August Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
Leaflets densely velvety spreading-villous below especially along the veins, per Native and Naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the United States (Isely, 1998).
JK Marlow jkm140804_356
August Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
Terminal leaflet rhombic or deltoid, 3.5-11cm long; stipels persistent, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
JK Marlow jkm160816_523
August Oconee County SC
Calyx sparsely to densely short-pubescent. Pedicels 2.5-8mm long, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
JK Marlow jkm160816_528
August Oconee County SC
Inflorescence paniculate, densely puberulent and uncinate-pubescent, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
JK Marlow jkm160816_530
August Oconee County SC
Petals 5-9mm long, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
JK Marlow jkm140909_608
September Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
Loment straight, with (3)4-5(6) segments, per Weakley's Flora (2012).
COMPARE
loments of Desmodium species
JK Marlow jkm151006_334
October Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
Loment moderately to densely uncinulate-pubescent on both sides and sutures, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
JK Marlow jkm151006_336
October Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
The reticulum obscured except in age as the pubescence thins, per Native and Naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the United States (Isely, 1998).