Desmodium illinoense Gray
other common names: beggar’s lice, sticktights, tick clover, Illinois tick trefoil
Desmodium: from Greek, meaning “long branch or chain,” probably from the shape and attachment of the seedpods
Illinoense: meaning “of Illinois”
Legume family: Fabaceae (Leguminosae)
Photograph by Thomas Rosburg, Wildflowers of the Tallgrass Prairie: The Upper Midwest, Second Edition
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