Tick Trefoil, Beggars Lice
Desmodium spp.
Fabaceae (Legume Family)
▲▼ young, immature plants
▲▼ flowering plants
▲▼ flowers
▲▼ seed pods
Tick trefoil, Tickclover, Beggars lice:
· short-lived, simple perennial, growing 2-5' tall
· stems, leaves hairy; leaves trifoliate, egg-shaped
· flowers, pink to white in a terminal spike
· fruit is a hairy, but bur-like, segmented pod, which will attach to people/animals passing by and break into segments