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Desmodium tortuosum
Also called Dixie Tick Trefoil, Florida Beggarweed, Beggarweed
Dixie ticktrefoil is a leguminous shrub-like plant from Latin America, widely grown as forage in subtropical and tropical areas. It thrives in full sun and sandy soil.
Desmodium tortuosum, the twisted tick trefoil, dixie tick trefoil, tall tick clover, Florida beggarweed, and giant beggar weed, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae.
It is native to Latin America, and widely introduced as a forage to much of the rest of the world's subtropics and tropics. It's been observed growing in habitats such as beaches, along lake shores, and in floodplains. It can be found growing in sandy soil and full sun.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Desmodium tortuosum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
