Showy Tick Trefoil - Desmodium canadense
Above: Showy Tick Trefoil on shore of Retaining Pond in Wingra Park in Madison, Wisconsin. (7/7/19).
Showy Tick Trefoil - Desmodium canadense
Showy Tick Trefoil is a native plant that grows from 2'-6' tall. It likes moist to wet thickets and streambanks, woods, prairies, and disturbed habitat.
Pink flowers are pea-shaped and about 1/2 inch long and densely packed. There is a small patch of dark pink at the center of the flower.
Above: Showy Tick Trefoil has compound leaves (in threes) attached to the petiole. At the base of the leaf stalk (petiole) there are two stipules. Stalks are hairy. Photo above taken in the Prairie Moraine Dog Park in Verona, Wisconsin (7/22/23).
For more information on the Showy Tick Trefoil, visit Wikipedia.
Or, visit the UW-Madison Wisconsin State Herbarium website page about Showy Tick Trefoil.
Showy Tick Trefoil
Desmodium canadense
Above: Showy Tick Trefoil on shore of Retaining Pond on July 7, 2019.
Above: Showy Tick Trefoil on shore of Retaining Pond on July 8, 2019.
Above: Showy Tick Trefoil on shore of Retaining Pond on July 9, 2019.
Above: Showy Tick Trefoil on shore of Retaining Pond on July 25, 2021.
Above: Showy Tick Trefoil on shore of Retaining Pond on July 28, 2019.
Above: Showy Tick Trefoil on shore of Retaining Pond on July 29, 2020.
Above: Showy Tick Trefoil on shore of Retaining Pond on August 11, 2019.
Above: Showy Tick Trefoil on shore of Retaining Pond on July 23, 2021.
Above: 1913 illustration of Showy Tick Trefoil (Desmodium canadense).
