Desmodium is a genus of plants in the legume family Fabaceae, sometimes called tick-trefoil, tick clover, hitch hikers or beggar lice. There are dozens...

The Desmodium incanum of many older sources is actually Desmodium laxiflorum; see below. Desmodium incanum, also known as creeping beggarweed, Spanish...

Codariocalyx motorius (though often placed in Desmodium), known as the telegraph plant, dancing plant, or semaphore plant, is a tropical Asian shrub in...

Desmodium canadense is a species of flowering plant in the legume family, Fabaceae. It is native to eastern North America. Its common names include showy...

Desmodium tweedyi is an herbaceous flowering plant in the pea family native to northern Texas and southern Oklahoma popularly known as "Tweedy's ticktrefoil"...

Desmodium paniculatum, the panicled-leaf ticktrefoil, narrow-leaf tick-trefoil or panicled tickclover, is a perennial herb in the pea family, Fabaceae...

Fruit and seeds At Peradeniya Royal Botanical Garden Grona triflora (Desmodium triflorum) contains alkaloids including N,N-dimethyltryptophan methyl...

Desmodium uncinatum, the silverleaf desmodium, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to Latin America, and introduced as a fodder...

Desmodium × humifusum is a species of flowering plant in the legume family known by the common names trailing tick-trefoil, eastern trailing tick-trefoil...

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 21 March 2024. Khare, C.P. (2007), "Desmodium gangeticum DC.", Indian Medicinal Plants, New York, NY: Springer New York...