Desmodium
Family: Fabaceae
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Sue Carnahan
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Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada
Cal ±bilabiate, the upper 2 lobes connate for all or most of their length, the lower 3 separate; standard oblong to suborbicular, narrowed at base; wings oblong; keel nearly straight; stamens 10, usually diadelphous; fr indehiscent, stipitate, transversely segmented and eventually separating into 1-seeded joints (articles), ±beset with hooked hairs; ours all perennial herbs with ±petioled (rarely subsessile), pinnately 3-foliolate lvs and purple or pink or less often white fls in elongate racemes or panicles. (Meibomia.) 300, mainly warm reg.

Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

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Desmodium acanthocladum
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Desmodium acuminatum
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Desmodium adscendens
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Desmodium affine
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Desmodium alamani
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Desmodium alamanii
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Desmodium ambiguum
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Desmodium amplifolium
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Desmodium angustatum
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Desmodium angustifolium
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Desmodium aparines
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Desmodium arbuscula
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Desmodium arenicola
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Desmodium arizonicum
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Desmodium asperum
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Desmodium axillare
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Desmodium barbatum
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Desmodium batocaulon
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Desmodium bellum
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Desmodium bigelovii
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Desmodium bioculatum
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Desmodium brachypodum
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Desmodium bracteosum
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Desmodium cajanifolium
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Desmodium callilepis
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Desmodium campylocaulon
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Desmodium campyloclados
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Desmodium canadense
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Desmodium canaliculatum
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Desmodium canescens
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Desmodium capitatum
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Desmodium caripense
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Desmodium chartaceum
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Desmodium chiapense
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Desmodium ciliare
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Desmodium cinerascens
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Desmodium cinerea
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Desmodium cinereum
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Desmodium coloniense
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Desmodium conzattii
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Desmodium cordistipulum
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Desmodium crassum
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Desmodium cubense
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Desmodium cuneatum
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Desmodium cuspidatum
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Desmodium decipiens
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Desmodium densiflorum
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Desmodium dichromum
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Desmodium dillenii
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Desmodium discolor
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