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§1 Plant

Desmodium illinoense A. Gray

vernacular Illinois ticktrefoil — species · Fabaceae


USDA
DEIL2
GBIF
2967591
Rank
species
Illinois ticktrefoil (Desmodium illinoense)
Platephotograph · Joshua MayerCC BY-SA 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

· 318 counties across 15 states/territories
Legend Native · 318 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 318 counties across 15 states/territories.

Arkansas view state ↗ 2 N
Illinois view state ↗ 79 N
Indiana view state ↗ 22 N
Iowa view state ↗ 20 N
Kansas view state ↗ 56 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 2 N
Michigan view state ↗ 17 N
Minnesota view state ↗ 9 N
Missouri view state ↗ 43 N
Nebraska view state ↗ 23 N
Ohio view state ↗ 7 N
Oklahoma view state ↗ 9 N
South Dakota view state ↗ 2 N
Texas view state ↗ 2 N
Wisconsin view state ↗ 25 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/DEIL2 ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/2967591 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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