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Desmodium obtusum
Stiff Ticktrefoil
Florida native
An occasional plant of sandhills and open hammocks in some northern Florida counties. Stiff ticktrefoil ranges throughout the southeastern United States, west into Texas and Colorado, throughout the Ohio Valley states and north into Michigan, New York and New Hampshire.
This erect or ascending plant has flowers in pairs and solid green leaves. The leaflets of Desmodium obtusum are elliptic to ovate-lanceolate and the terminal leaflet is distinctly longer (5-7cm/2 to 2-3/4 in.) and narrower than the other leaflets.
Desmodium obtusum is a member of the Fabaceae - Pea family.
Other species of the Desmodium genus in the Wild Florida Photo database:
Desmodium incanum - ZARZABACOA COMUN
Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants (Institute for Systemic Botany) profile for this species
USDA Plant Profile for this species
Date record last modified: Nov 30, 2019
