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

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Desmodium marilandicum

Desmodium marilandicum

Includes
3 native
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Children

  • Little-leaf Tick-clover native
  • Maryland Tick-trefoil native
  • Stiff Ticktrefoil native

Range

United States

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

Top native Desmodium marilandicum All

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

  • Maryland Tick-trefoil Desmodium marilandicum caterpillars 19 hosts 2 food 3 flowers 21
  • Little-leaf Tick-clover Desmodium ciliare caterpillars 19 hosts 2 food 3 flowers 4
  • Stiff Ticktrefoil Desmodium obtusum caterpillars 18 hosts 2 food 3 flowers 4

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