NameThatPlant.net: Desmodium obtusum

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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Desmodium obtusum FAMILY Fabaceae Go to FSUS key

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Learn more about Stiff Tick-trefoil from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Desmodium obtusum FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-26-015:

Desmodium obtusum FAMILY Fabaceae

COMMON NAME:
Stiff Tick-trefoil

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Desmodium obtusum FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Desmodium obtusum FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-26-015:
Desmodium obtusum FAMILY Fabaceae

2971

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills and dry pine flatwoods, other dry pine woodlands, fields, woodland borders, disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common

CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.

LEAVES:
Odd-pinnately compound: 3 leaflets
Alternate
Stipules soon deciduous.
Stipels persistent.

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 1-3 rounded segments

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