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2421

Forb
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Common (rare in Piedmont)

Look for it in bogs, pine savannas, wet pine flatwoods, per Weakley's Flora

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...Wet

LEAVES:
Pinnately compound: 3 leaflets
Mostly alternate

FLOWER:
Summer
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 1-3 rounded segments

 

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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fabales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
 Desmodium tenuifolium   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
 Desmodium tenuifolium   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 098-26-011:
 Desmodium tenuifolium   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
 Meibomia tenuifolia

 

COMMON NAME:
 Slimleaf Tick-trefoil, Savanna Slender Tick-trefoil

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image of Desmodium tenuifolium, Slimleaf Tick-trefoil, Savanna Slender Tick-trefoil

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmdtenuifolium_scotts1

May    Williamsburg County    SC

Inflorescence usually paniculate, pedicels 4-10mm long, petals 4-5mm long, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.

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