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Photographer: from USDA Plants website
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Family Fabaceae
Desmodium canescens (L.) DC.
hoary tick-trefoil
Desmodium: Greek meaning "long branch or chain," probably from the shape and the way the seedpods attach
canescens: Latin for "generally hoary or whitish" from appearance of plant due to tiny white hairs
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| Status: | Special Concern |
| Plant: | erect, perennial, 3'-6' tall, very hairy forb often with many branches; long taproot |
| Flower: | pink to greenish, 5-parted, 1/3" long, stalked; inflorescence a 3"-6" long, branched cluster (panicle) of several spike-like clusters (raceme) |
| Fruit: | flat, mostly straight pod divided into segments and covered with hooked hairs  |
| Leaf: | 3-parted, leaf stalk much longer than the end leaflet |
| Habitat: | fields, woods |
| (Glossary) |
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