OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fabales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Hylodesmum glutinosum   FAMILY Fabaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Desmodium glutinosum   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)

Desmodium glutinosum

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-26-002:

Desmodium glutinosum   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Meibomia acuminata

 

COMMON NAME:
Heartleaf Tick-trefoil, Clusterleaf Tick-trefoil, Pointedleaf Tick-Trefoil


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image of Hylodesmum glutinosum, Heartleaf Tick-trefoil, Clusterleaf Tick-trefoil, Pointedleaf Tick-Trefoil

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_megr6_001_lvd

        

image of Hylodesmum glutinosum, Heartleaf Tick-trefoil, Clusterleaf Tick-trefoil, Pointedleaf Tick-Trefoil

JK Marlow    jkm140627_482b

June    Transylvania County    NC

Foothills Trail

image of Hylodesmum glutinosum, Heartleaf Tick-trefoil, Clusterleaf Tick-trefoil, Pointedleaf Tick-Trefoil

JK Marlow    jkm170624_281b

June    Oconee County    SC

Sumter National Forest: Andrew Pickens Ranger District

Petals are rarely white, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Hylodesmum glutinosum, Heartleaf Tick-trefoil, Clusterleaf Tick-trefoil, Pointedleaf Tick-Trefoil

JK Marlow    jkm170624_285

June    Oconee County    SC

Sumter National Forest: Andrew Pickens Ranger District

image of Hylodesmum glutinosum, Heartleaf Tick-trefoil, Clusterleaf Tick-trefoil, Pointedleaf Tick-Trefoil

JK Marlow    jkm170624_286b

June    Oconee County    SC

Sumter National Forest: Andrew Pickens Ranger District

Pedicels 3.5-5.5mm. Corolla 5-7mm, per Native and Naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the United States (Isely, 1998).

image of Hylodesmum glutinosum, Heartleaf Tick-trefoil, Clusterleaf Tick-trefoil, Pointedleaf Tick-Trefoil

JK Marlow    jkm170624_288

June    Oconee County    SC

Sumter National Forest: Andrew Pickens Ranger District

image of Hylodesmum glutinosum, Heartleaf Tick-trefoil, Clusterleaf Tick-trefoil, Pointedleaf Tick-Trefoil

JK Marlow    jkm170624_293

June    Oconee County    SC

Sumter National Forest: Andrew Pickens Ranger District

inflorescence 3-8dm long, elongate, conspicuous, much exceeding the leaves, per Weakley's Flora (2012).

image of Hylodesmum glutinosum, Heartleaf Tick-trefoil, Clusterleaf Tick-trefoil, Pointedleaf Tick-Trefoil

JK Marlow    jkm170624_296

June    Oconee County    SC

Sumter National Forest: Andrew Pickens Ranger District

image of Hylodesmum glutinosum, Heartleaf Tick-trefoil, Clusterleaf Tick-trefoil, Pointedleaf Tick-Trefoil

JK Marlow    jkm170624_297

June    Oconee County    SC

Sumter National Forest: Andrew Pickens Ranger District

Fruits 7.5-9mm, generally concave above, assymmetrically rounded below, per Native and Naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the United States (Isely, 1998).


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image of Hylodesmum glutinosum, Heartleaf Tick-trefoil, Clusterleaf Tick-trefoil, Pointedleaf Tick-Trefoil

JK Marlow    jkm170624_302

June    Oconee County    SC

Sumter National Forest: Andrew Pickens Ranger District

image of Hylodesmum glutinosum, Heartleaf Tick-trefoil, Clusterleaf Tick-trefoil, Pointedleaf Tick-Trefoil

JK Marlow    jkm170624_305

June    Oconee County    SC

Sumter National Forest: Andrew Pickens Ranger District

image of Hylodesmum glutinosum, Heartleaf Tick-trefoil, Clusterleaf Tick-trefoil, Pointedleaf Tick-Trefoil

JK Marlow    jkm170624_305b

June    Oconee County    SC

Sumter National Forest: Andrew Pickens Ranger District

Calyx about 2mm, lobes shorter than the tube, per Native and Naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the United States (Isely, 1998).

image of Hylodesmum glutinosum, Heartleaf Tick-trefoil, Clusterleaf Tick-trefoil, Pointedleaf Tick-Trefoil

JK Marlow    jkm170624_314

June    Oconee County    SC

Sumter National Forest: Andrew Pickens Ranger District

Fruits incised to ventral suture from below, per Native and Naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the United States (Isely, 1998).

image of Hylodesmum glutinosum, Heartleaf Tick-trefoil, Clusterleaf Tick-trefoil, Pointedleaf Tick-Trefoil

JK Marlow    jkm160827_685

August    Henderson County    NC

Bearwallow Mountain

image of Hylodesmum glutinosum, Heartleaf Tick-trefoil, Clusterleaf Tick-trefoil, Pointedleaf Tick-Trefoil

JK Marlow    jkm190801_0399

August    Buncombe County    NC

Blue Ridge Parkway

image of Hylodesmum glutinosum, Heartleaf Tick-trefoil, Clusterleaf Tick-trefoil, Pointedleaf Tick-Trefoil

JK Marlow    jkm160919_012

September    Polk County    NC

Pearson's Falls

Leaves subverticillate, clustered; leaflets conspicuously & strongly acuminate, per Weakley's Flora.

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Hylodesmum glutinosum   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Desmodium glutinosum   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)
Desmodium glutinosum

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-26-002:
Desmodium glutinosum   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Meibomia acuminata

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

2670

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Moist forests, especially nutrient-rich, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Uncommon (rare in Coastal Plain)

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LEAVES:
Odd-pinnately compound: 3 leaflets
Whorl-like cluster
Stipules narrowly linear
Leaflets rarely subtended by stipels.

FLOWER:
Summer
Rose-purplish (rarely white)
Bilaterally symmetrical
2-lipped calyx
5-parted papilionaceous corolla
10 monadelphous stamens
Superior ovary

Flowers in a terminal panicle

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Loment with 1-4 segments

 

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