OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fabales

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



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Desmodium perplexum   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-26-023:

Desmodium perplexum   FAMILY Fabaceae

 

COMMON NAME:
Perplexing Tick-trefoil, Dillen's Tick-trefoil


 

 

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Desmodium perplexum   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-26-023:
Desmodium perplexum   FAMILY Fabaceae

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

3465

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Fields, woodland borders, hammocks, disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & possibly Georgia

Common (uncommon in GA Mountains & GA Piedmont) (rare in GA Coastal Plain)

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

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 usually 2-4 broadly rhombic to triangular segments?

 

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