Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Desmodium 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 paniculatum var. paniculatum
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Desmodium paniculatum var. paniculatum
FAMILY
Fabaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-26-016:
Desmodium paniculatum
FAMILY
Fabaceae
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Meibomia chapmanii
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Meibomia paniculata
COMMON NAME:
Panicled 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 of 3-6 triangular to subrhombic segments
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
Desmodium paniculatum var. paniculatum FAMILY Fabaceae
Panicled Tick-trefoil
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Desmodium from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_mepa10_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm190709_9843
July Greenville County SC
The southern mtns' only Desmodium with narrow leaflets, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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JK Marlow jkm0308o_17
August Greenville County SC
Roadside
Leaflets usually 3-8x longer than wide, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm0308o_18
August Greenville County SC
Roadside
Many rose to purple flowers in panicles at the top of 2-4' tall plant, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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JK Marlow jkm140814_518
August Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
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JK Marlow jkm0309b_23
September Greenville County SC
Ashmore Heritage Preserve
Loment segments angled on lower margin (thus triangular to sub-rhombic), per Weakley's Flora.
COMPARE
loments of Desmodium species
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JK Marlow jkm180904_4547
September Greenville County SC
Leaflets (2.5)3-8(10)x long as wide; leaflet pubescence usually sparse, per Weakley's Flora (2015).
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JK Marlow jkm180924_4948
September McCormick County SC
Parks Mill
Lf surfaces glabrous or nearly so to moderately puberulent or short-pubescent, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm190905_1318
September Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm190905_1370
September Greenville County SC
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Roxanna Martin rlm91210_174
September Spartanburg County SC
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Roxanna Martin rlm91210_183
September Spartanburg County SC
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JK Marlow s050904_a
September Transylvania County NC
DuPont State Forest
The inflorescence is a large, widely branched panicle, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
COMPARE
Beggar's Lice (Tick-trefoil) species
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JK Marlow s050910_j
September Greenville County SC
Field