Desmodium tweedyi |
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Tweedy's ticktrefoil |
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Habit | Herbs, perennial. |
Stems | ascending or erect, usually striate, angled, 30–100 cm, densely uncinate-puberulent to -pubescent and sparsely glutinous-pilose. |
Leaves | trifoliolate; stipules persistent, ovate, 7.5–14.5 mm; petiole 40–90 mm; leaflet blades narrowly ovate to ovate or broadly ovate, thick, leathery, apex acute, usually pale-blotched along midrib adaxially, surfaces uncinate-puberulent to -pubescent and villous; terminal blade 40–120 × 20–66 mm, length 2 times width. |
Inflorescences | branched or unbranched; rachis densely uncinate-puberulent to -pubescent and glutinous-villous; primary bracts ovate to broadly ovate, 7–10 mm. |
Pedicels | 8–25 mm, patent uncinate-pubescent and pilose. |
Flowers | calyx 3–5 mm, puberulent and pubescent, ± glutinous, tube 1.2–1.5 mm; abaxial lobes 2.5–4 mm, lateral lobes 1.5 mm; corolla white, 7–8 mm. |
Loments | sutures nearly equally crenate; connections adaxial, 1/4 as broad as segments; segments (2 or)3–5(or 6), subrhombic, 6–8 × 4 mm, obtusely angled abaxially, somewhat angled adaxially, densely uncinate-pubescent throughout; stipe 2–4 mm. |
Desmodium tweedyi |
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Phenology | Flowering early summer. |
Habitat | Woodlands near creeks, usually calcareous soils. |
Elevation | 200–800 m. (700–2600 ft.) |
Distribution |
OK; TX |
Discussion | Desmodium tweedyi is known from the Edwards Plateau area and north-central Texas northward to central Oklahoma. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. |
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Synonyms | Meibomia tweedyi |
Name authority | Britton: Trans. New York Acad. Sci. 9: 183. (1890) |
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