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Learn more about Nuttall's Tick-trefoil from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fabales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Desmodium nuttallii
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Desmodium nuttallii
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-26-019:
Desmodium nuttallii
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:
Nuttall's Tick-trefoil
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September Swain County NC
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September Swain County NC
Leaves glabrate to moderately appressed-pilose above, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
COMPARE
Beggar's Lice (Tick-trefoil) species
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September Swain County NC
Loment more or less arching with 2-4 segments, rounded both above and below, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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September Swain County NC
Bracts (subtending clusters of 2-3 flowers) usually villous, per Weakley's Flora (2012).
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JK Marlow jkm140906_291
September Swain County NC
Leaflets cinereous, or villous, on the lower surface, per Weakley's Flora (2012).
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September Swain County NC
Closely spreading-villous & often velvety below, but reticulum gen. visible, per Native and Naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the United States (Isely, 1998).
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JK Marlow jkm140906_292
September Swain County NC
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September Swain County NC
This and D. viridiflorum are the velvety-pubescent eastern species, per Native and Naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the United States (Isely, 1998).