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Tweedy's ticktrefoil

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

Phenology Flowering early summer.
Habitat Woodlands near creeks, usually calcareous soils.
Elevation 200–800 m. (700–2600 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
OK; TX
[BONAP county map]
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.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Desmodium
Sibling taxa
D. arizonicum, D. batocaulon, D. canadense, D. canescens, D. cinerascens, D. cuspidatum, D. floridanum, D. grahamii, D. gramineum, D. illinoense, D. incanum, D. intortum, D. laevigatum, D. lindheimeri, D. lineatum, D. marilandicum, D. metcalfei, D. nuttallii, D. ochroleucum, D. paniculatum, D. procumbens, D. psilocarpum, D. psilophyllum, D. retinens, D. rosei, D. rotundifolium, D. scopulorum, D. scorpiurus, D. sessilifolium, D. strictum, D. tenuifolium, D. tortuosum, D. triflorum, D. viridiflorum, D. ×humifusum
Synonyms Meibomia tweedyi
Name authority Britton: Trans. New York Acad. Sci. 9: 183. (1890)
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