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 pauciflorum   FAMILY Fabaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Desmodium pauciflorum   FAMILY Fabaceae

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

Desmodium pauciflorum

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-26-003:

Desmodium pauciflorum   FAMILY Fabaceae

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

Meibomia pauciflora

 

COMMON NAME:
Fewflower Tick-trefoil


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image of Hylodesmum pauciflorum, Fewflower Tick-trefoil

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_mepa9_001_lvd

        

image of Hylodesmum pauciflorum, Fewflower Tick-trefoil

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_d_pauciflorum_a

July        

Calyx densely uncinulate-puberulent; petals white, 5-7mm long, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).


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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Desmodium pauciflorum   FAMILY Fabaceae

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-26-003:
Desmodium pauciflorum   FAMILY Fabaceae

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

3631

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Moist forests, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Uncommon (rare in Carolina Mountains & GA Coastal Plain)

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LEAVES:
Odd-pinnately compound: 3 leaflets
Alternate, scattered
Stipules caducous
No stipels

FLOWER:
Summer
White
Bilaterally symmetrical
2-lipped calyx
5-parted papilionaceous corolla
10 monadelphous stamens

Flowers in racemes (terminal and sometimes axillary)

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Loment with 1-3 segments

 

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