OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

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



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Desmodium canescens   FAMILY Fabaceae

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

Desmodium canescens

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, 1938)

Meibomia canescens

 

COMMON NAME:
Hoary Tick-trefoil


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image of Desmodium canescens, Hoary Tick-trefoil

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_meca16_001_lvd

        

image of Desmodium canescens, Hoary Tick-trefoil

Terry Holdsclaw    tdh_desmodium_canescens_1

July    Iredell County    NC

image of Desmodium canescens, Hoary Tick-trefoil

Terry Holdsclaw    tdh_desmodium_canescens_3

July    Iredell County    NC

image of Desmodium canescens, Hoary Tick-trefoil

JK Marlow    jkm190802_0524

August    Greenville County    SC

Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area

Stems 6-15dm tall, densely spreading-pilose and uncinulate-puberulent, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Desmodium canescens, Hoary Tick-trefoil

JK Marlow    jkm190802_0525

August    Greenville County    SC

Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area

image of Desmodium canescens, Hoary Tick-trefoil

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_d_canescens_5_s

August        

Inflorescence typically villous as well as uncinulate-puberulent, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Desmodium canescens, Hoary Tick-trefoil

JK Marlow    jkm190903_1193

September    Greenville County    SC

Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area

Stipules ovate to ovate-lanceolate, with a wide partially clasping base, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Desmodium canescens, Hoary Tick-trefoil

JK Marlow    jkm190903_1196

September    Greenville County    SC

Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area

image of Desmodium canescens, Hoary Tick-trefoil

JK Marlow    jkm190903_1198

September    Greenville County    SC

Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area

image of Desmodium canescens, Hoary Tick-trefoil

JK Marlow    jkm190903_1200

September    Greenville County    SC

Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area

Petiole much longer than stalk of terminal leaflet, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999).

image of Desmodium canescens, Hoary Tick-trefoil

JK Marlow    jkm190903_1201

September    Greenville County    SC

Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area

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).


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image of Desmodium canescens, Hoary Tick-trefoil

Terry Holdsclaw    tdh_desmodium_canescens_2

September    Iredell County    NC

 

 

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Desmodium canescens   FAMILY Fabaceae

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

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, 1938)
Meibomia canescens

 

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446

Forb
Perennial

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

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common (rare in Coastal Plain)

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LEAVES:
Odd-pinnately compound: 3 leaflets
Alternate

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rose-purplish (rarely white)
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 4 or more angular segments

 

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