Index / Search / Desmodium cuspidatum var. longifolium

§1 Plant

Desmodium cuspidatum (Muhl. ex Willd.) DC. ex D. Don var. longifolium (Torr. & A. Gray) B.G. Schub.

vernacular largebract ticktrefoil — variety · Fabaceae


USDA
DECUL
GBIF
7648930 syn.
Rank
variety
largebract ticktrefoil (Desmodium cuspidatum var. longifolium)
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

  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 98 counties across 9 states/territories
Legend Native · 98 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 98 counties across 9 states/territories.

District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N
Illinois view state ↗ 41 N
Indiana view state ↗ 12 N
Iowa view state ↗ 2 N
Kansas view state ↗ 1 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 1 N
Missouri view state ↗ 18 N
Nebraska view state ↗ 8 N
Wisconsin view state ↗ 14 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/DECUL ↗

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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