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Desmodium procumbens

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Miller) A. Hitchcock

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Barbados
• Brazil
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Hispaniola
• Jamaica
• Leeward Islands
• Mexico
• Netherland Antilles
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Puerto Rico
• Trinidad
• Arizona
• Virgin Islands - USA
• Venezuela
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Grassland
• shrubland
• thickets

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

Herbaceous slender glabrous erect herb, procumbent or climber. Trifoliate with glabrous or pubescent leaflets to 50mm long. Terminal racemes of greenish-yellow or purple flowers. 5-articulated pubescent spirally twisted legume

Further References

• APDC
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• ILDIS
• USDA
• SAFIO
• Standley