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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. Stiff Ticktrefoil

species 230 observations

Stiff Ticktrefoil

Desmodium obtusum

Status
native
Traits
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

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27 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 18
  • Hosted animals Gall makers, leaf miners and other animals living on or in it Desmodium Leaf-mining Beetle, Dasineura meibomiae 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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