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Learn more about Roundleaf 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 rotundifolium
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Desmodium rotundifolium
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-26-004:
Desmodium rotundifolium
FAMILY
Fabaceae
(?)
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Meibomia michauxii
COMMON NAME:
Roundleaf Tick-trefoil, Dollarleaf, Prostrate Tick-trefoil, Sessileleaf Tick-trefoil
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JK Marlow jkm120623_240
June Greenville County SC
Ashmore Heritage Preserve
A prostrate plant with stems to 5' long, per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
JK Marlow jkm120623_245
June Greenville County SC
Ashmore Heritage Preserve
Unique in that its leaflets are nearly round, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
JK Marlow jkm120623_249
June Greenville County SC
Ashmore Heritage Preserve
Erect, sparsely flowered racemes arise from the trailing stem, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
JK Marlow s050625_b
June Union County SC
Leaflets 1-4cm long & wide. Stipules persistent, ovate, & clasping the stem, per Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses.
COMPARE
Beggar's Lice (Tick-trefoil) species
JK Marlow jkm120704_571
July Greenville County SC
Ashmore Heritage Preserve
The infrequently formed fruits have a narrow or somewhat broadened isthmi, per Native and Naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the United States (Isely, 1998).
JK Marlow jkm120704_573
July Greenville County SC
Ashmore Heritage Preserve
Loment of (3-)4-6 segments, both margins about equally indented, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
COMPARE
loments of Desmodium species
Roxanna Martin rlm9210_70
September Spartanburg County SC
Calyx sparsely pilose to puberulent, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.