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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Legumes, Milkworts, and Allies
  6. Legumes
  7. Ticktrefoils
  8. Desmodium paniculatum

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Desmodium paniculatum

Desmodium paniculatum

Includes
4 native
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Children

  • Panicled Ticktrefoil native
  • Tall Tick-trefoil native
  • Perplexed Tick-trefoil native
  • Fernald's Ticktrefoil native

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Top native Desmodium paniculatum All

Native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

  • Perplexed Tick-trefoil Desmodium perplexum caterpillars 20 hosts 2 food 3 flowers 4
  • Panicled Ticktrefoil Desmodium paniculatum caterpillars 19 hosts 2 food 4 flowers 31
  • Tall Tick-trefoil Desmodium glabellum caterpillars 19 hosts 2 food 3 flowers 6
  • Fernald's Ticktrefoil Desmodium fernaldii caterpillars 14 hosts 1 food 2 flowers 3

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