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3631

Forb
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Uncommon (rare in GA Coastal Plain)

Look for it in moist forest, per Weakley's Flora

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...Moist

LEAVES:
Odd-pinnately compound: 3 leaflets
Alternate, scattered
Stipules caducous
No stipels

FLOWER:
Summer
White
Bilaterally symmetrical
2-lipped calyx
5-parted papilionaceous corolla
10 monadelphous stamens
Flowers in racemes (terminal and sometimes axillary)

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Loment with 1-3 segments

 

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
 Hylodesmum pauciflorum   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
 Desmodium pauciflorum   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-26-003:
 Desmodium pauciflorum   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
 Meibomia pauciflora

 

COMMON NAME:
 Fewflower Tick-trefoil

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image of Hylodesmum pauciflorum, Fewflower Tick-trefoil

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_mepa9_001_lvd

        

image of Hylodesmum pauciflorum, Fewflower Tick-trefoil

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_d_pauciflorum_a

July        

Calyx densely uncinulate-puberulent; petals white, 5-7mm long, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.

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