Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fabales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Hylodesmum nudiflorum
FAMILY
Fabaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Naked Tick-trefoil from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Desmodium nudiflorum
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-26-001:
Desmodium nudiflorum
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Meibomia nudiflora
COMMON NAME:
Naked Tick-trefoil, Naked-flowered Tick Trefoil, Woodland Tick-trefoil
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_menu2_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm060506_027
May Oconee County SC
Clemson Forest
Leaflets ovate to obovate, to 4" long, crowded at top of the sterile branch, per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
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JK Marlow jkm170624_255
June Oconee County SC
Sumter National Forest: Andrew Pickens Ranger District
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JK Marlow jkm170624_271
June Oconee County SC
Sumter National Forest: Andrew Pickens Ranger District
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JK Marlow jkm0507j_27
July Greenville County SC
Wildcat Falls Wayside Park
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JK Marlow jkm120727_942
July Spartanburg County SC
Flowers of the Bean Family are of a unique form known as "papilionaceous", per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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JK Marlow jkm220715_9104
July Greenville County SC
Chestnut Ridge Heritage Preserve
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Tim Spira tps_dnudiflorum2
July
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Tim Spira tps_dnudiflorum4
July
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_d_nudiflorum_s
September
Rose-purple, pea-like flowers in a loose raceme on a leafless scape, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
COMPARE
Beggar's Lice (Tick-trefoil) species
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmdnudiflorum_home
Month Unknown Anderson County SC
Fertile stems to about 30" tall, typically erect at first, leaning with age, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmdnudiflorum_home2
Month Unknown Anderson County SC
Stem forked at base: sterile branch to 12" tall and leafless scape to 40", per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmdnudiflorum_homeb
Month Unknown Anderson County SC
Legume (loment) straight across one edge and scalloped along the other, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
COMPARE
loments of Desmodium species
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Hylodesmum nudiflorum
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Desmodium nudiflorum
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-26-001:
Desmodium nudiflorum
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Meibomia nudiflora
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Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common
Look for it in moist to dry forests, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
...Moist
...Variable
...Dry
LEAVES:
Odd-pinnately compound: 3 leaflets
Whorl-like cluster
FLOWER:
Summer
Rose-purplish
(rarely white)
Bilaterally symmetrical
2-lipped calyx
5-parted papilionaceous corolla
10 monadelphous stamens
Superior ovary
Inflorescence a loose raceme
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Loment with (1-)2-4 segments
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers p084
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p036
- Southern Appalachian Wildflowers p143
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p337
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p127
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p133
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p170
- Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont p361
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p081
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p143