Tick Trefoil

Tick Trefoil, Beggars Lice

Desmodium spp.

Fabaceae (Legume Family)

▲ ▼ young, immature plants

▲ ▼ flowering plants

▲ ▼ flowers

▲ ▼ seed pods

Tick trefoil, Tickclover, Beggars lice:

short-lived, simple perennial, growing 2-5' tall
stems, leaves hairy; leaves trifoliate, egg-shaped
flowers, pink to white in a terminal spike
fruit is a hairy, but bur-like, segmented pod, which will attach to people/animals passing by and break into segments