Desmodium canadense

Common Name: Showy Tick Trefoil
 
Soil: Dry-Mesic  Mesic  Wet-Mesic  
Height: 2 ft - 4 ft
Blooming: Jul Aug

This has the showiest flowers of all of our native Desmodium (Tick Trefoils). It grows in a wide range of habitats. Like all Desmodium, its seeds have minute hooked hairs causing it to cling to clothing and fur.

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