3919

Forb
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Common in Coastal Plain, uncommon in Piedmont, rare in Mountains

Look for it in sandhills and other dry forests and woodlands, per Weakley's Flora

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...Dry

LEAVES:
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 usually in terminal panicles and axillary racemes

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Loment usually with 2-3 segments

 

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Desmodium lineatum   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Desmodium lineatum   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 098-26-008:
Desmodium lineatum   FAMILY Fabaceae

GREATER THAN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Meibomia arenicola

GREATER THAN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Meibomia polymorpha