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Desmodium
tortuosum
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Dicots
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FABACEAE
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Desmodium
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Desmodium
tortuosum
(Sw.)DC.
Common Name
DIXIE TICKTREFOIL
Growth Habit
**
C Value
**
Plant Notes
Here considered non-native, Webster & Cardina (2004) found the earliest specimen in Florida in Leon Co. from 1843; it was collected in Miami in 1878 (Garber s.n., BRU).
Status
Not Native
FAC (NWPL)
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Supraordinal
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FABALES
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FABACEAE
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Desmodium
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Desmodium
tortuosum
(Sw.)DC.
- DIXIE TICKTREFOIL
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DESMODIUM TORTUOSUM (Swartz) de Candolle, Prodr. 2: 332. 1825.
Basionym
Hedysarum tortuosum Swartz 1788.
Type
JAMAICA: Without data, Swartz s.n. (holotype: S).
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