Index / Search / Desmodium tenuifolium
§1 Plant
Desmodium tenuifolium Torr. & A. Gray
vernacular slimleaf ticktrefoil — species · Fabaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Fabaceae Lindl.
- Genus
- Desmodium
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
County-level range
· 77 counties across 8 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 77 counties across 8 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 17 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 6 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 22 N ▾
- Beaufort 37013
- Bladen 37017
- Brunswick 37019
- Carteret 37031
- Columbus 37047
- Craven 37049
- Cumberland 37051
- Duplin 37061
- Granville 37077
- Harnett 37085
- Hertford 37091
- Hoke 37093
- Johnston 37101
- Jones 37103
- Lee 37105
- Nash 37127
- New Hanover 37129
- Onslow 37133
- Pender 37141
- Pitt 37147
- Robeson 37155
- Wilson 37195
South Carolina view state ↗ 6 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/DETE3 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2967408 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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