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
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Smooth Small-leaf Tick-trefoil from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_mema9_001_lvd
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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.
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JK Marlow jkm230717_4520
July Greenville County SC
Blue Wall Preserve
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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).
COMPARE
Beggar's Lice (Tick-trefoil) species
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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).
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JK Marlow jkm200903_7090
September Greenville County SC
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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).
COMPARE
loments of Desmodium species
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
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)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
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
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p062
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p335
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p191
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p081
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011) p076
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