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Desmodium

not marked as a favorite taxon Desmodium ×humifusum (Muhlenberg ex Bigelow) L.C. Beck. Common name: Ground-spreading Tick-trefoil. Phenology: Jul-Sep. Habitat: Dry, sandy soils. Distribution: MA (NS?) south to MD and DC (and possibly VA).

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Origin/Endemic status: Native

Taxonomy Comments: Raveill (2002) discussed the probably hybrid origin of Desmodium humifusum (paniculatum × rotundifolium). The exact nature of its origin and whether it is better considered as a hybrid or a species of hybrid origin is unclear.

Synonymy ⓘ: = FNA11.1, K4, NE, POWO, Raveill (2002); Hedysarum humifusum Muhl. ex Bigelow; = Desmodium glabellum (Michx.) DC. — G, misapplied; = Desmodium humifusum (Muhl. ex Bigelow) L.C.Beck — C, F, NS, Pa, SE3, Tat, Isely (1998); = Desmodium paniculatum × rotundifolium — NY; = Meibomia glabella Kuntze — S, S13, misapplied. Basionym: Hedysarum humifusum Muhl. ex Bigelow 1824

Links to other floras: = Desmodium ×humifusum - FNA11.1

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