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Dixie ticktrefoil
Desmodium tortuosum
Fabaceae
 

Copyright by: Forest & Kim Starr

Plant Map Map of select IRC data from peninsular Florida.

Wildlife and Ecology: Larval host plant for long-tailed skipper (Urbanus proteus), silver spotted skipper (Epargyreus clarus) and the recently established dorantes skipper (Urbanus dorantes) butterflies

Copyright by: Forest & Kim Starr

Copyright by: Forest & Kim Starr

Copyright by: Forest & Kim Starr

Copyright by: Forest & Kim Starr


Other data on Desmodium tortuosum available from:

Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants


 
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