Desmodium rotundifolium

Desmodium rotundifolium
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
Class:	Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Order:	Fabales
Family:	Fabaceae ⁄ Leguminosae
Genus:	Desmodium
Species:	D. rotundifolium
Binomial name
Desmodium rotundifolium DC.
Natural range of Desmodium rotundifolium from USDA NRCS Plants Database.

Description

Common Name: Prostrate ticktrefoil

Flowers may be blue or light purple in northern states (FSU Herbarium). In southern areas, fresh corollas are rosy pink, then fading into a whitish color with age (FSU Herbarium). Creeping and trailing habit and prostrate(FSU Herbarium).

Ecology

Habitat

Is found in mixed hardwoods including pines, oaks, and hickories (FSU Herbarium). Also found in lightly wooded hillsides, dry glacial drift, and open woods (FSU Herbarium). Requires shaded areas (FSU Herbarium). Is associated with drying sandy loam soil types (FSU Herbarium).

Phenology

Has been observed flowering from August through October and fruiting in September (FSU Herbarium).