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



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Desmodium paniculatum var. paniculatum   FAMILY Fabaceae

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

Desmodium paniculatum var. paniculatum

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-26-016:

Desmodium paniculatum   FAMILY Fabaceae

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Meibomia chapmanii

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Meibomia paniculata

INCLUDING & INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Meibomia pubens

 

COMMON NAME:
Panicled Tick-trefoil


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image of Desmodium paniculatum var. paniculatum, Panicled Tick-trefoil

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_mepa10_001_lvd

        

image of Desmodium paniculatum var. paniculatum, Panicled Tick-trefoil

JK Marlow    jkm190709_9843

July    Greenville County    SC

The southern mtns' only Desmodium with narrow leaflets, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).

image of Desmodium paniculatum var. paniculatum, Panicled Tick-trefoil

JK Marlow    jkm0308o_17

August    Greenville County    SC

Roadside

Leaflets usually 3-8x longer than wide, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Desmodium paniculatum var. paniculatum, Panicled Tick-trefoil

JK Marlow    jkm0308o_18

August    Greenville County    SC

Roadside

Many rose to purple flowers in panicles at the top of 2-4' tall plant, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).

image of Desmodium paniculatum var. paniculatum, Panicled Tick-trefoil

JK Marlow    jkm140814_518

August    Greenville County    SC

Swamp Rabbit Trail

image of Desmodium paniculatum var. paniculatum, Panicled Tick-trefoil

JK Marlow    jkm0309b_23

September    Greenville County    SC

Ashmore Heritage Preserve

Loment segments angled on lower margin (thus triangular to sub-rhombic), per Weakley's Flora.


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image of Desmodium paniculatum var. paniculatum, Panicled Tick-trefoil

JK Marlow    jkm180904_4547

September    Greenville County    SC

Leaflets (2.5)3-8(10)x long as wide; leaflet pubescence usually sparse, per Weakley's Flora (2015).

image of Desmodium paniculatum var. paniculatum, Panicled Tick-trefoil

JK Marlow    jkm180924_4948

September    McCormick County    SC

Parks Mill

Lf surfaces glabrous or nearly so to moderately puberulent or short-pubescent, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Desmodium paniculatum var. paniculatum, Panicled Tick-trefoil

JK Marlow    jkm190905_1318

September    Greenville County    SC

Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area

image of Desmodium paniculatum var. paniculatum, Panicled Tick-trefoil

JK Marlow    jkm190905_1370

September    Greenville County    SC

Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area

image of Desmodium paniculatum var. paniculatum, Panicled Tick-trefoil

Roxanna Martin    rlm91210_174

September    Spartanburg County    SC

image of Desmodium paniculatum var. paniculatum, Panicled Tick-trefoil

Roxanna Martin    rlm91210_183

September    Spartanburg County    SC

image of Desmodium paniculatum var. paniculatum, Panicled Tick-trefoil

JK Marlow    s050904_a

September    Transylvania County    NC

DuPont State Forest

The inflorescence is a large, widely branched panicle, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).


click here to see other plants that look similar to this COMPARE Beggar's Lice (Tick-trefoil) species

image of Desmodium paniculatum var. paniculatum, Panicled Tick-trefoil

JK Marlow    s050910_j

September    Greenville County    SC

Field

 

 

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Desmodium paniculatum var. paniculatum   FAMILY Fabaceae

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

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-26-016:
Desmodium paniculatum   FAMILY Fabaceae

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Meibomia chapmanii

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Meibomia paniculata

INCLUDING & INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Meibomia pubens

 

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451

Forb
Perennial

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

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common

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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 of 3-6 triangular to subrhombic segments

 

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