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Dixie ticktrefoil
Desmodium tortuosum
Desmodium tortuosum
Dixie ticktrefoil Pea Family
Desmodium tortuosum Fabaceae
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common names
  Dixie ticktrefoil
  Dixie tick trefoil
accepted scientific name
  Desmodium tortuosum (Sw.) DC.
rules for finding collection records
  Desmodium tortuosum (43)
  Meibomia purpurea (0)
family name
  • Fabaceae
Image Author: ©2013 Forest And Kim Starr
Image License: CC BY
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Category: Wildflowers
Flowers: Pea shaped flowers
Petal colors: color
Leaf: Alternate
Plant Observed 3rd week of March thru 1st week of December
Non-Native. Naturalized.

How Likely at this Location (14%)
Name Match (100%)
Plant Showiness (36%)
where plant found
mag select

Disturbed
Wetland
Sand
Salt Marsh
Rocky
Riparian
Meadow
Grassland
Forest
grid lines base


Names

Accepted Scientific Name

Desmodium tortuosum   (Sw.) DC.   (TSN: 25830, Index: 835)


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