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Round-leaved Trailing Tick-trefoil

Desmodium rotundifolium

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in New York.January 17, February 17, March 23, April 40, May 69, June 34, July 25, August 23, September 27, October 25, November 17, December 16.
United States3,714
New York331
Arkansas329
North Carolina280
Pennsylvania243
Virginia243
Missouri225
Kentucky210
Tennessee200
Massachusetts183

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

  • Forb or herb growth formListed by a harvested source as having a forb or herbaceous growth form.USDA PLANTS Characteristics
  • Perennial plantListed by a harvested source as having a perennial life duration.USDA PLANTS Characteristics
  • Nitrogen fixingDescends from a plant lineage commonly associated with nitrogen-fixing symbioses.Inferred from its group

Classification

KingdomPlants · Plantae
PhylumVascular Plants · Tracheophyta
ClassDicots · Magnoliopsida
OrderLegumes, Milkworts, and Allies · Fabales
FamilyLegumes · Fabaceae
Genusticktrefoils · Desmodium

Sources

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Practise Round-leaved Trailing Tick-trefoil with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.

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