Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fabales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Desmodium cuspidatum
FAMILY
Fabaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Desmodium from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
INCLUDING
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Desmodium cuspidatum var. cuspidatum
FAMILY
Fabaceae
INCLUDING PLANTS National Database
Desmodium cuspidatum var. longifolium
Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)
Desmodium cuspidatum
INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-26-007:
Desmodium cuspidatum FAMILY Fabaceae
COMMON NAME:
Long-bracted Tick-trefoil, Toothed Tick-trefoil, Largebract Tick-trefoil
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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Desmodium cuspidatum
FAMILY
Fabaceae
INCLUDING
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Desmodium cuspidatum var. cuspidatum
FAMILY
Fabaceae
INCLUDING
PLANTS National Database
Desmodium cuspidatum var. longifolium
Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)
Desmodium cuspidatum
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-26-007:
Desmodium cuspidatum
FAMILY
Fabaceae
3263
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Fields, woodlands, woodland borders, disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Uncommon (rare in Coastal Plain) (rare in GA Piedmont)
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LEAVES:
Odd-pinnately compound: 3 leaflets
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 4 or more angular segments
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p333
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p082
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