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Desmodium obtusum
Also called Stiff Tick Trefoil
Desmodium obtusum, commonly known as stiff tick-trefoil, is a member of the legume family native to the eastern United States.
Desmodium obtusum is found in Massachusetts west to southern Michigan and south to the Florida Panhandle and Texas. It grows in fields, longleaf pine sandhills and dry pine flatwoods, other dry pine woodlands, woodland borders, and disturbed areas.
Showy ticktrefoil · Hairy small-leaf ticktrefoil · Largebract ticktrefoil · Fernald's ticktrefoil · Florida ticktrefoil · Dillenius' ticktrefoil · Illinois ticktrefoil · Zarzabacoa comun · Greenleaf ticktrefoil · Smooth ticktrefoil · Sand ticktrefoil · Smooth small-leaf ticktrefoil
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Desmodium obtusum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
