Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fabales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Hylodesmum glutinosum
FAMILY
Fabaceae
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Learn more about Heartleaf Tick-trefoil from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Desmodium glutinosum
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)
Desmodium glutinosum
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-26-002:
Desmodium glutinosum FAMILY Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Meibomia acuminata
COMMON NAME:
Heartleaf Tick-trefoil, Clusterleaf Tick-trefoil, Pointedleaf Tick-Trefoil
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_megr6_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm140627_482b
June Transylvania County NC
Foothills Trail
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JK Marlow jkm170624_281b
June Oconee County SC
Sumter National Forest: Andrew Pickens Ranger District
Petals are rarely white, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow jkm170624_285
June Oconee County SC
Sumter National Forest: Andrew Pickens Ranger District
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JK Marlow jkm170624_286b
June Oconee County SC
Sumter National Forest: Andrew Pickens Ranger District
Pedicels 3.5-5.5mm. Corolla 5-7mm, per Native and Naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the United States (Isely, 1998).
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JK Marlow jkm170624_288
June Oconee County SC
Sumter National Forest: Andrew Pickens Ranger District
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JK Marlow jkm170624_293
June Oconee County SC
Sumter National Forest: Andrew Pickens Ranger District
inflorescence 3-8dm long, elongate, conspicuous, much exceeding the leaves, per Weakley's Flora (2012).
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JK Marlow jkm170624_296
June Oconee County SC
Sumter National Forest: Andrew Pickens Ranger District
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JK Marlow jkm170624_297
June Oconee County SC
Sumter National Forest: Andrew Pickens Ranger District
Fruits 7.5-9mm, generally concave above, assymmetrically rounded below, per Native and Naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the United States (Isely, 1998).
COMPARE
Beggar's Lice (Tick-trefoil) species
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JK Marlow jkm170624_302
June Oconee County SC
Sumter National Forest: Andrew Pickens Ranger District
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JK Marlow jkm170624_305
June Oconee County SC
Sumter National Forest: Andrew Pickens Ranger District
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JK Marlow jkm170624_305b
June Oconee County SC
Sumter National Forest: Andrew Pickens Ranger District
Calyx about 2mm, lobes shorter than the tube, per Native and Naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the United States (Isely, 1998).
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JK Marlow jkm170624_314
June Oconee County SC
Sumter National Forest: Andrew Pickens Ranger District
Fruits incised to ventral suture from below, per Native and Naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the United States (Isely, 1998).
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JK Marlow jkm160827_685
August Henderson County NC
Bearwallow Mountain
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JK Marlow jkm190801_0399
August Buncombe County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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JK Marlow jkm160919_012
September Polk County NC
Pearson's Falls
Leaves subverticillate, clustered; leaflets conspicuously & strongly acuminate, per Weakley's Flora.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Hylodesmum glutinosum
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Desmodium glutinosum
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)
Desmodium glutinosum
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-26-002:
Desmodium glutinosum
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Meibomia acuminata
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Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Moist forests, especially nutrient-rich, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Uncommon (rare in Coastal Plain)
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LEAVES:
Odd-pinnately compound: 3 leaflets
Whorl-like cluster
Stipules narrowly linear
Leaflets rarely subtended by stipels.
FLOWER:
Summer
Rose-purplish
(rarely white)
Bilaterally symmetrical
2-lipped calyx
5-parted papilionaceous corolla
10 monadelphous stamens
Superior ovary
Flowers in a terminal panicle
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Loment with 1-4 segments
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p087
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p081
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