Native and naturalized plants
Native and naturalized plants of the Carolinas and Georgia, eastern Tennessee and northern Florida

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Weakley's Flora ( 4/7/08 ): Fabaceae
Desmodium/ Hylodesmum spp.

PLANTS National Database: Fabaceae
Desmodium spp.

SYNONYMOUS WITH
Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (1968): Fabaceae
098-26-000
Desmodium spp.

Common Name:
Beggar's Lice, Tick-trefoil, Stick-tight, Tick-clover

Shrub Forb
Annual/Perennial

Native & non-native
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC


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Leaves:
Compound: Pinnate 3-foliolate

Flower:
Summer/Fall
Pink/Rose/Purple/Blue/White
Bilaterally symmetrical
2-lipped calyx

Fruit:
Summer/Fall
Loment

To learn more about this plant, look it up in a good book!
Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p080




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image of Desmodium spp., image of Desmodium/ Hylodesmum spp.
JK Marlow      s040531_a


May
Greenville County SC
Ashmore Heritage Preserve

 

image of Desmodium spp., image of Desmodium/ Hylodesmum spp.
JK Marlow      s040531_b


May
Greenville County SC
Ashmore Heritage Preserve

 

image of Desmodium spp., image of Desmodium/ Hylodesmum spp.
JK Marlow      s070609_c


June
Pickens County SC

Stipules subtend leaves, and stipels subtend leaflets.

 

image of Desmodium spp., image of Desmodium/ Hylodesmum spp.
JK Marlow      jkm0309a_29


September
Greenville County SC
Ashmore Heritage Preserve

 

image of Desmodium spp., image of Desmodium/ Hylodesmum spp.
JK Marlow      jkm0309b_23


September
Greenville County SC
Ashmore Heritage Preserve

 

image of Desmodium spp., image of Desmodium/ Hylodesmum spp.
JK Marlow      jkm0309j_15


September
Greenville County SC

 

image of Desmodium spp., image of Desmodium/ Hylodesmum spp.
JK Marlow      s050904_a


September
Transylvania County NC
DuPont State Forest

 

image of Desmodium spp., image of Desmodium/ Hylodesmum spp.
JK Marlow      s021020_a


October
Greenville County SC

 

image of Desmodium spp., image of Desmodium/ Hylodesmum spp.
JK Marlow      s081012_d


October
Pickens County SC
Clemson Forest

 

image of Desmodium spp., image of Desmodium/ Hylodesmum spp.
JK Marlow      s051118_a


November
Greenville County SC
Field

 

image of Desmodium spp., image of Desmodium/ Hylodesmum spp.
JK Marlow      s051118_b


November
Greenville County SC
Field

 

"Our Great-Aunt Narcissa ... knew the names of all the wild flowers and she taught the names of them all to us — the small blue anemone that bloomed in ravines in February, the first of our blossoms and the purest blue, the flower of faith, of new hope; the bloodroot, the May apple, the wild yellow azalea, the corpse flower, the trailing arbutus, the purple gentian — the last blossoms of the autumn, struggling to perfection in the last minutes of existence." — Ben Robertson, Red Hills and Cotton