Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fabales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Desmodium lineatum
FAMILY
Fabaceae
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Learn more about Matted Tick-trefoil from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Desmodium lineatum
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)
Desmodium lineatum
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-26-008:
Desmodium lineatum FAMILY Fabaceae
INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Meibomia arenicola
INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Meibomia polymorpha
COMMON NAME:
Matted Tick-trefoil, Sand Tick-trefoil
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_mear11_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm190520_8570
May Greenville County SC
Stipules lance-attenuate to linear-subulate, striate, 2-5mm long, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow jkm200531_5457
May Greenville County SC
Unusual in the genus in that it "crawls" though not technically a vine, per Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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JK Marlow jkm200531_5462
May Greenville County SC
Stems to 2' long, prostrate/trailing, with leaves quite small for the genus, per Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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JK Marlow jkm200618_5929
June Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm190830_1073
August Greenville County SC
Distinguished by prostrate habit & small leaves with mostly suborbicular leaflets, per Leguminosae (Fabaceae), vol 3, part 2, Vascular flora of the southeastern United States (Isely, 1990).
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JK Marlow jkm190831_1093
August Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm190831_1102
August Greenville County SC
Pedicels 6-16mm long; petals 4-6mm long, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
COMPARE
Beggar's Lice (Tick-trefoil) species
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JK Marlow jkm190831_1111
August Greenville County SC
Loment segments convex above, symmetrically rounded below, per Leguminosae (Fabaceae), vol 3, part 2, Vascular flora of the southeastern United States (Isely, 1990).
COMPARE
loments of Desmodium species
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JK Marlow jkm230812_5002
August Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm230812_5004
August Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm200903_7069
September Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm200903_7088
September Greenville County SC
Stems trailing vinelike along the ground, per Weakley's Flora (2020).
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Keith Bradley kab_d_lineatum_4046
September Lexington County SC
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Keith Bradley kab_d_lineatum_4057
September Lexington County SC
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Desmodium lineatum
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Desmodium lineatum
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)
Desmodium lineatum
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-26-008:
Desmodium lineatum
FAMILY
Fabaceae
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Meibomia arenicola
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Meibomia polymorpha
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Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills and other dry forests and woodlands, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in Coastal Plain (uncommon in Carolina Piedmont) (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
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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 usually in terminal panicles and axillary racemes
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Loment usually with 2-3 segments
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p334
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p192
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