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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
  9. Little-leaf Tick-clover

species 2,265 observations

Little-leaf Tick-clover

Desmodium ciliare

Status
native
Traits
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

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28 native animals
supported in the US
  • Caterpillars Moths and butterflies raised on it Locust Digitate Leafminer Moth, Dwarf Plume Moth, Silver-spotted Skipper, Barred Yellow 19
  • Hosted animals Gall makers, leaf miners and other animals living on or in it Dasineura meibomiae, Desmodium Leaf-mining Beetle 2
  • Plant eaters Animals that feed on it Ruffed Grouse, Tylopelta gibbera, Versute Sharpshooter 3
  • Flower visitors Pollinators and other flower visitors Common Eastern Bumble Bee, Brown-belted Bumble Bee, Two-spotted Bumble Bee, Half-black Bumble Bee 4

Range

United States

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

Key traits

Layer
Herbaceous plants
Plant type
Perennial Wildflower

From USDA PLANTS.

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