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Desmodium
This plant has sticky seeds (third photo) that adhere quickly to anything passing by.Tick-trefoils produce high amounts of antixenotic allomones - chemicals which repel many insect pests - and allelopathic compounds which kill weeds.Some Desmodium species are used in traditional African medicine, and are also used in Western alternative medicine. Research shows it can provide a protection of the liver, probably due to the presence of flavonoids in the plant. These plants are also called tick-trefoil, tick clover, hitch hikers or beggar lice.
Wooded area (Battle Branch trail)
Spotted on Oct 1, 2013
Submitted on Oct 9, 2013
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It is one of the tick trefoils, Desmodium spp.