Desmodium tortuosum: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Fabales
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Desmodium
- Species
- Desmodium tortuosum
- Scientific Name
- Desmodium tortuosum
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Desmodium tortuosum
Desmodium tortuosum, the twisted tick trefoil, dixie tick trefoil, tall tick clover, Florida beggarweed, and giant beggar weed, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae.
It is native to Latin America, and widely introduced as a forage to much of the rest of the world's subtropics and tropics. It's been observed growing in habitats such as beaches, along lake shores, and in floodplains. It can be found growing in sandy soil and full sun.
...Desmodium tortuosum in languages:
- Chinese
- 紫花山螞蝗 南美山螞蝗 扭莢山綠豆
- English
- Florida beggarweed
- English
- Dixie ticktrefoil
- Japanese
- ムラサキヌスビトハギ
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Desmodium affine
- Desmodium alamanii
- Desmodium ambiguum
- Desmodium amplifolium
- Desmodium amplistipulaceum
- Desmodium angustatum
- Desmodium angustifolium
- Desmodium aparines
- Desmodium arechavaletae
- Desmodium arizonicum
- Desmodium axillare
- Desmodium batocaulon
- Desmodium bellum
- Desmodium bioculatum
- Desmodium bridgesii
- Desmodium cajanifolium
- Desmodium callilepis
- Desmodium campylocaulon
- Desmodium campyloclados
- Desmodium canadense
- Desmodium canaliculatum
- Desmodium canescens
- Desmodium caripense
- Desmodium chartaceum
- Desmodium chiapense
- Desmodium ciliare
- Desmodium cinerascens
- Desmodium cinereum
- Desmodium coloniense
- Desmodium conzattii
- Desmodium cordistipulum
- Desmodium crassum
- Desmodium cuneatum
- Desmodium cuspidatum
- Desmodium delotum
- Desmodium densiflorum
- Desmodium distortum
- Desmodium fernaldii
- Desmodium floridanum
- Desmodium foliosum
- Desmodium ghiesbreghtii
- Desmodium glabellum
- Desmodium glabrum
- Desmodium gracile
- Desmodium grahamii
- Desmodium guadalajaranum
- Desmodium guaraniticum
- Desmodium hartwegianum
- Desmodium helleri
- Desmodium hookerianum
- Desmodium illinoense
- Desmodium incanum
- Desmodium infractum
- Desmodium intermedium
- Desmodium intortum
- Desmodium jaliscanum
- Desmodium johnstonii
- Desmodium kaalense
- Desmodium karwinskii
- Desmodium laevigatum
- Desmodium lamprocarpum
- Desmodium lavanduliflorum
- Desmodium leiocarpum
- Desmodium lempirae
- Desmodium leptoclados
- Desmodium leptomeres
- Desmodium limense
- Desmodium lindheimeri
- Desmodium linearifolium
- Desmodium lineatum
- Desmodium lupulinum
- Desmodium luteolum
- Desmodium macrocarpum
- Desmodium macrodesmum
- Desmodium macropodium
- Desmodium macrostachyum
- Desmodium madrense
- Desmodium marilandicum
- Desmodium maxonii
- Desmodium metallicum
- Desmodium metcalfei
- Desmodium mexiae
- Desmodium michelianum
- Desmodium michoacanum
- Desmodium micranthum
- Desmodium microcarpum
- Desmodium molliculum
- Desmodium monticola
- Desmodium nicaraguense
- Desmodium nitidum
- Desmodium novogalicianum
- Desmodium nuttallii
- Desmodium obtusum
- Desmodium occidentale
- Desmodium ochroleucum
- Desmodium orbiculare
- Desmodium orizabanum
- Desmodium ospriostreblum
- Desmodium pachyrhizum
- Desmodium painteri
- Desmodium pallidum
- Desmodium palmeri
- Desmodium paniculatum
- Desmodium parkinsonii
- Desmodium perplexum
- Desmodium platycarpum
- Desmodium plectocarpum
- Desmodium plicatum
- Desmodium polygaloides
- Desmodium polystachyum
- Desmodium prehensile
- Desmodium pringlei
- Desmodium procumbens
- Desmodium prodigum
- Desmodium prostratum
- Desmodium pseudoamplifolium
- Desmodium psilocarpum
- Desmodium psilophyllum
- Desmodium purpusianum
- Desmodium purpusii
- Desmodium raymundoramirezii
- Desmodium retinens
- Desmodium rhytidophyllum
- Desmodium rosei
- Desmodium rotundifolium
- Desmodium saxatile
- Desmodium scalare
- Desmodium schindleri
- Desmodium schubertianum
- Desmodium schusteri
- Desmodium sclerophyllum
- Desmodium scopulorum
- Desmodium scorpiurus
- Desmodium scutatum
- Desmodium seatonii
- Desmodium sericocarpum
- Desmodium sericophyllum
- Desmodium serotinum
- Desmodium sessilifolium
- Desmodium skinneri
- Desmodium strictum
- Desmodium subrosum
- Desmodium subsecundum
- Desmodium subsericeum
- Desmodium subsessile
- Desmodium subtile
- Desmodium sumichrastii
- Desmodium sylvicola
- Desmodium tastense
- Desmodium tenuifolium
- Desmodium tiliifolium
- Desmodium tortuosum
- Desmodium tweedyi
- Desmodium uncinatum
- Desmodium urarioides
- Desmodium vargasianum
- Desmodium varians
- Desmodium venustum
- Desmodium viridiflorum
- Desmodium volubile
- Desmodium weberbaueri
- Desmodium wydlerianum
- Desmodium xylopodium
- Desmodium yungasense
- Desmodium × humifusum































































































































































