NEW IN POTTED TRAYS! is aptly named Showy Tick Trefoil for its numerous pink flowers that bloom along the plant’s upper stems for about three weeks in mid-summer. The effect is more …

Showy Tick Trefoil is a herbaceous flowering perennial native to the upper Midwest, North Eastern United States, and into Canada. As it’s name implies, it makes beautiful pink-purple blooms in …

Showy Tick Trefoil is more attractive when it occurs in colonies, rather than as isolated plants. Distinguishing the different Desmodium spp. is rather difficult. Important features to consider …

A nitrogen fixer, Desmodium canadense (Showy Tick Trefoil) is an erect, bushy perennial boasting elongated clusters packed with numerous pink or rose-purple pea-like flowers. …

1 or more spike-like racemes, usually densely packed, of stalked flowers at the top of the stem and arising from upper leaf axils. Flowers are pea-shaped, about ½ inch long, pink to purple …

Missouri has 17 species of tick trefoils, which live in a variety of habitats. Hikers know them well from their chains of hairy little seedpods that stick to clothing like parasites!

Canada Tick Trefoil, Desmodium canadense, bears bright purple pea-like flowers in the heat of summer. A deep taproot makes this legume very drought-resistant.

It bears pink pea-like blossoms about 1/2 inch wide in spikes in summer. It later bears hairy 3 to 5-jointed seed pods that can catch on fur or clothing. It has long-oval leaflets in threes that look …

Showy tick trefoil grows in full to partial sun, and mid-range soil moisture (neither very wet nor very dry). It naturally occurs in open ground in moist to dry sandy conditions. This plant can be …

Showy Tick Trefoil - Grow Native! leaflets two to three times longer than broad on short stalks; stem striated. up to 6 feet. July to September. Leaves are alternate along the stem and divided …