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

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



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Desmodium marilandicum   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Desmodium marilandicum var. marilandicum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)

Desmodium marilandicum

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-26-014:

Desmodium marilandicum   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Meibomia marilandica

 

COMMON NAME:
Smooth Small-leaf Tick-trefoil, Maryland Tick-trefoil


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image of Desmodium marilandicum, Smooth Small-leaf Tick-trefoil, Maryland Tick-trefoil

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_mema9_001_lvd

        

image of Desmodium marilandicum, Smooth Small-leaf Tick-trefoil, Maryland Tick-trefoil

JK Marlow    jkm230717_4445

July    Greenville County    SC

Blue Wall Preserve

Stem leaves quite small (like D. ciliare), but tend to be glabrous and have 3/4" petioles, per Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

image of Desmodium marilandicum, Smooth Small-leaf Tick-trefoil, Maryland Tick-trefoil

JK Marlow    jkm230717_4520

July    Greenville County    SC

Blue Wall Preserve

image of Desmodium marilandicum, Smooth Small-leaf Tick-trefoil, Maryland Tick-trefoil

JK Marlow    jkm190905_1305

September    Greenville County    SC

Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area

A smooth plant with long petioles, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).


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image of Desmodium marilandicum, Smooth Small-leaf Tick-trefoil, Maryland Tick-trefoil

JK Marlow    jkm190905_1308

September    Greenville County    SC

Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area

Corolla about 5mm long, per Leguminosae (Fabaceae), vol 3, part 2, Vascular flora of the southeastern United States (Isely, 1990).

image of Desmodium marilandicum, Smooth Small-leaf Tick-trefoil, Maryland Tick-trefoil

JK Marlow    jkm200903_7090

September    Greenville County    SC

image of Desmodium marilandicum, Smooth Small-leaf Tick-trefoil, Maryland Tick-trefoil

JK Marlow    s081012_d2

October    Pickens County    SC

Clemson Forest

Loment - upper slightly convex to almost straight, broadly rounded below, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).


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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Desmodium marilandicum   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Desmodium marilandicum var. marilandicum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)
Desmodium marilandicum

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-26-014:
Desmodium marilandicum   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Meibomia marilandica

 

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448

Forb
Perennial

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

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common (uncommon in GA Mountains & Coastal Plain)

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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 1-3 rounded segments

 

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