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§1 Plant
Desmodium lineatum DC.
vernacular sand ticktrefoil — species · Fabaceae
§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
· 121 counties across 11 states/territories§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 121 counties across 11 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 2 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 26 N ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Bay 12005
- Calhoun 12013
- Citrus 12017
- Columbia 12023
- Duval 12031
- Franklin 12037
- Gadsden 12039
- Gilchrist 12041
- Hamilton 12047
- Hernando 12053
- Jackson 12063
- Lake 12069
- Leon 12073
- Levy 12075
- Liberty 12077
- Madison 12079
- Marion 12083
- Miami-Dade 12086
- Nassau 12089
- Okaloosa 12091
- Santa Rosa 12113
- Sumter 12119
- Volusia 12127
- Wakulla 12129
- Walton 12131
Georgia view state ↗ 17 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 15 N ▾
Maryland view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 6 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 27 N ▾
- Brunswick 37019
- Chowan 37041
- Columbus 37047
- Cumberland 37051
- Duplin 37061
- Edgecombe 37065
- Gaston 37071
- Gates 37073
- Granville 37077
- Greene 37079
- Halifax 37083
- Harnett 37085
- Hertford 37091
- Johnston 37101
- Jones 37103
- Martin 37117
- Orange 37135
- Pamlico 37137
- Polk 37149
- Richmond 37153
- Robeson 37155
- Scotland 37165
- Stanly 37167
- Union 37179
- Wake 37183
- Warren 37185
- Wayne 37191
South Carolina view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 10 N ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 2 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/DELI2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2946841 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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