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Learn more about Tall Tick-trefoil from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fabales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Desmodium glabellum
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Desmodium glabellum
FAMILY
Fabaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Desmodium glabellum
INCLUDED WITHIN
Guide to the Vascular Plants of the Blue Ridge (Wofford, 1989)
Desmodium paniculatum var. dillenii
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-26-022:
Desmodium glabellum
FAMILY
Fabaceae
COMMON NAME:
Tall Tick-trefoil, Dillen's Tick-trefoil
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Look for it in fields, woodland borders, disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in
GA
NC
SC
Common
LEAVES:
Odd-pinnately compound: 3 leaflets
Alternate
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
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 (1-)2-4(5) broadly rhombic to triangular or weakly obovate segments
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Desmodium glabellum FAMILY Fabaceae
Tall Tick-trefoil, Dillen's Tick-trefoil
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Tall Tick-trefoil from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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JK Marlow jkm190702_9654
July Greenville County SC
Leaves commonly reticulate and vein-uncinulate above, per Native and Naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the United States (Isely, 1998).
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JK Marlow jkm170826_747
August Spartanburg County SC
Leaflets broadly ovate or rhombic to narrowly ovate or ovate-lanceolate, per Native and Naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the United States (Isely, 1998).
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JK Marlow jkm170826_751
August Spartanburg County SC
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JK Marlow jkm170826_766
August Spartanburg County SC
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JK Marlow jkm170826_768
August Spartanburg County SC
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JK Marlow jkm120908_437
September Greenville County SC
Leaflets 1.5-3(4) x long as wide, per Native and Naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the United States (Isely, 1998).
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JK Marlow jkm120908_439
September Greenville County SC
Inflorescence usually paniculate; pedicels (2)4-8(12)mm long, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm120908_450
September Greenville County SC
Upper suture usually slightly outwardly bowed... lower strongly angled..., per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
COMPARE
loments of Desmodium species
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JK Marlow jkm120908_475
September Greenville County SC
Petals 6-9mm long, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
COMPARE
Beggar's Lice (Tick-trefoil) species
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JK Marlow jkm180903_4522
September Greenville County SC
Loment's lower suture rarely somewhat rounded (more commonly strongly angled), per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.