Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Hoary Tick-trefoil from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fabales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Desmodium canescens
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Desmodium canescens
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-26-006:
Desmodium canescens
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Meibomia canescens
COMMON NAME:
Hoary Tick-trefoil
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_meca16_001_lvd
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Terry Holdsclaw tdh_desmodium_canescens_1
July Iredell County NC
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Terry Holdsclaw tdh_desmodium_canescens_3
July Iredell County NC
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JK Marlow jkm190802_0524
August Greenville County SC
Stems 6-15dm tall, densely spreading-pilose and uncinulate-puberulent, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm190802_0525
August Greenville County SC
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_d_canescens_5_s
August
Inflorescence typically villous as well as uncinulate-puberulent, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm190903_1193
September Greenville County SC
Stipules ovate to ovate-lanceolate, with a wide partially clasping base, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm190903_1196
September Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm190903_1198
September Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm190903_1200
September Greenville County SC
Petiole much longer than stalk of terminal leaflet, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States.
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JK Marlow jkm190903_1201
September Greenville County SC
Corolla 9-13 mm long [in other words, relatively large for a Desmodium!], per Leguminosae (Fabaceae), vol 3, part 2, Vascular flora of the southeastern United States (Isely, 1990).
COMPARE
Beggar's Lice (Tick-trefoil) species
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Terry Holdsclaw tdh_desmodium_canescens_2
September Iredell County NC