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Slender Tick-trefoil

Desmodium varians

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Australia.January 42, February 44, March 27, April 36, May 18, June 10, July 10, August 3, September 10, October 16, November 24, December 48.
Australia288
Queensland139
New South Wales83
Victoria60
Australian Capital Territory6

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

Traits

Group and habits

  • 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

Study it in a deck

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Sources

Remember the name next time.

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