Index / Search / Desmodium cuspidatum var. cuspidatum

§1 Plant

Desmodium cuspidatum (Muhl. ex Willd.) DC. ex D. Don var. cuspidatum

vernacular largebract ticktrefoil — variety · Fabaceae


USDA
DECUC
GBIF
7648930 syn.
Rank
variety
largebract ticktrefoil (Desmodium cuspidatum var. cuspidatum)
Platephotograph · Carol NelsonCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Fabaceae Lindl.
Genus
Desmodium
§2a

Native status, by region

  • CAN Canada Native
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 354 counties across 27 states/territories
Legend Native · 354 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 354 counties across 27 states/territories.

Arkansas view state ↗ 17 N
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N
Florida view state ↗ 2 N
Georgia view state ↗ 1 N
Illinois view state ↗ 63 N
Indiana view state ↗ 35 N
Iowa view state ↗ 3 N
Kansas view state ↗ 3 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 13 N
Massachusetts view state ↗ 6 N
Michigan view state ↗ 1 N
Mississippi view state ↗ 4 N
Missouri view state ↗ 86 N
New Hampshire view state ↗ 3 N
New Jersey view state ↗ 9 N
New York view state ↗ 23 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 14 N
Ohio view state ↗ 3 N
Oklahoma view state ↗ 1 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 31 N
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 N
South Carolina view state ↗ 6 N
Tennessee view state ↗ 1 N
Vermont view state ↗ 3 N
Virginia view state ↗ 11 N
West Virginia view state ↗ 12 N
Wisconsin view state ↗ 1 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/DECUC ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/7648930 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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