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  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Legumes, Milkworts, and Allies
  6. Legumes
  7. Ticktrefoils
  8. Desmodium marilandicum
  9. Maryland Tick-trefoil

species 1,245 observations

Maryland Tick-trefoil

Desmodium marilandicum

Status
native
Traits
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Supports All

45 native animals
supported in the US
  • Caterpillars Moths and butterflies raised on it Silver-spotted Skipper, Anarsioses aberrans, Locust Digitate Leafminer Moth, Dwarf Plume Moth 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 Looper Moth, Sinuous Bee Fly, Museum Beetle, Bellflower Resin Bee 21

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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