Common names: sessile tick clover, sessileleaf tick clover, sessile-leaved tick clover

Scientific names: Desmodium sessilifolium (Meibomia sessilifolia)

Seasons of significant use: summer (for Desmodium spp. complex)

Characteristics: Native, perennial, warm season forb to 6.5 feet. Stems 1-several from base, usually unbranched to inflorescence; leaves alternate, pinnately trifoliolate compound; leaflets 3, narrowly elliptic to linear-lanceolate, densely covered with short hairs on lower surface, less densely covered with short hooked hairs on upper surface, stipels present; inflorscence densely flowered with long slender branches; fruit is usually a 2-3, somtimes1-4, jointed loment, moderately covered with short, hooked hairs. Flowers June-September.

Plant community type: Open areas

Comments: Responds favorably to late winter-early spring burns. Generally disappears in overgrazed situations.

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