Tick Trefoil, Beggars Lice

(Desmodium spp.)

Fabaceae (Legume Family)

▲▼ young, immature plants

▲▼ flowering plants

▲▼ flowers

▲▼ seed pods

Tick trefoil, Tickclover, Beggars lice: (not in Weeds of the Great Plains, nor Weeds of the Northeast)

·         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