Scientific name: Desmodium rotundifolium DC.
Synonym: Desmodium michauxii (Vail) Daniels
Common name: Prostrate Tick-trefoil
Family: Fabaceae; Bean
Origin: Native
Habitat: dry woods
Image: Desmodium rotundifolium DC., on Lavender Mountain at the Berry College Campus, Mt. Berry, Georgia; June 27, 2009.
Comments: There is herbarium specimen of Desmodium rotundifolium DC. at John D. Freeman Herbarium (AUA), Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama collected in Rome, Floyd County, Georgia, and identified by Alvin W. Chapman (1809-1899) in: 1872, 1881,or 1891.

Last updated on January 9, 2011.

References :
1. Fernald, Merritt L. Gray's Manual of Botany 8ed. New York: D.Van Nostrand, 1970: 918.
2. Auburn University Herbarium ( http://www.auburn.edu/herbarium/), Department of Biological Sciences Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849
3. Image by Zvezdana Ukropina-Crawford
4. USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA.

Botanical Exploration in Floyd County, Georgia
A.W. Chapman collection from Floyd County, Georgia