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§1 Plant
Desmodium pauciflorum (Nutt.) DC.
vernacular fewflower 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
· 299 counties across 22 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 299 counties across 22 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 15 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 16 N ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 29 N ▾
- Boone 18011
- Clark 18019
- Crawford 18025
- Daviess 18027
- Decatur 18031
- Fayette 18041
- Fountain 18045
- Franklin 18047
- Gibson 18051
- Harrison 18061
- Huntington 18069
- Jackson 18071
- Jefferson 18077
- Lawrence 18093
- Marion 18097
- Montgomery 18107
- Orange 18117
- Owen 18119
- Parke 18121
- Perry 18123
- Posey 18129
- Putnam 18133
- Rush 18139
- Spencer 18147
- Union 18161
- Vanderburgh 18163
- Vermillion 18165
- Wabash 18169
- Warrick 18173
Kansas view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 44 N ▾
- Adair 21001
- Anderson 21005
- Ballard 21007
- Bell 21013
- Boone 21015
- Bullitt 21029
- Campbell 21037
- Carter 21043
- Casey 21045
- Clark 21049
- Clay 21051
- Edmonson 21061
- Estill 21065
- Fayette 21067
- Franklin 21073
- Grayson 21085
- Hardin 21093
- Harrison 21097
- Hart 21099
- Henderson 21101
- Henry 21103
- Jackson 21109
- Jefferson 21111
- Jessamine 21113
- Kenton 21117
- Larue 21123
- Letcher 21133
- Lincoln 21137
- McCreary 21147
- McLean 21149
- Menifee 21165
- Montgomery 21173
- Muhlenberg 21177
- Nicholas 21181
- Ohio 21183
- Oldham 21185
- Owen 21187
- Owsley 21189
- Perry 21193
- Powell 21197
- Taylor 21217
- Union 21225
- Whitley 21235
- Wolfe 21237
Louisiana view state ↗ 16 N ▾
Maryland view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 38 N ▾
- Benton 29015
- Bollinger 29017
- Butler 29023
- Cape Girardeau 29031
- Carroll 29033
- Carter 29035
- Clay 29047
- Cole 29051
- Crawford 29055
- Douglas 29067
- Dunklin 29069
- Franklin 29071
- Greene 29077
- Jackson 29095
- Jasper 29097
- Jefferson 29099
- Madison 29123
- Maries 29125
- Marion 29127
- Miller 29131
- Mississippi 29133
- New Madrid 29143
- Newton 29145
- Oregon 29149
- Osage 29151
- Ozark 29153
- Pemiscot 29155
- Pulaski 29169
- Randolph 29175
- Ripley 29181
- Scott 29201
- St. Clair 29185
- St. Louis 29189
- Stoddard 29207
- Stone 29209
- Taney 29213
- Washington 29221
- Wayne 29223
New Jersey view state ↗ 3 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 9 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 11 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 29 N ▾
- Anderson 47001
- Carroll 47017
- Cheatham 47021
- Coffee 47031
- Dickson 47043
- Franklin 47051
- Giles 47055
- Grundy 47061
- Henry 47079
- Hickman 47081
- Houston 47083
- Jackson 47087
- Jefferson 47089
- Knox 47093
- Lake 47095
- Lawrence 47099
- Marshall 47117
- Montgomery 47125
- Obion 47131
- Perry 47135
- Sevier 47155
- Shelby 47157
- Smith 47159
- Stewart 47161
- Sumner 47165
- Tipton 47167
- Van Buren 47175
- White 47185
- Williamson 47187
Virginia view state ↗ 29 N ▾
- Amelia 51007
- Botetourt 51023
- Brunswick 51025
- Caroline 51033
- Charlotte 51037
- Chesapeake (city) 51550
- Chesterfield 51041
- Fairfax 51059
- Fauquier 51061
- Gloucester 51073
- Henrico 51087
- James City 51095
- King William 51101
- Mathews 51115
- Middlesex 51119
- New Kent 51127
- Newport News (city) 51700
- Northampton 51131
- Nottoway 51135
- Prince George 51149
- Rockingham 51165
- Scott 51169
- Southampton 51175
- Suffolk (city) 51800
- Surry 51181
- Sussex 51183
- Virginia Beach (city) 51810
- Warren 51187
- York 51199
West Virginia view state ↗ 2 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/DEPA7 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3913194 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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