Long-leaf tick-clover

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Long-leaf tick-clover

Long-leaf tick-clover loment

Long-leaf tick-clover leaf

Long-leaf tick-clover loment

Morphology

Stem

Erect, simple or branched, glabrous or sparsely uncinate-puberulent.

Leaves

Alternate, odd-pinnately compound; petiole 1.6 to 4 inches; stipules lanceolate, .4 to .8 inch long, .04 to .08 inch wide, apex acuminate; leaflets 3; blades ovate to lanceolate, base rounded to cuneate, apex acute to acuminate, margins entire, surfaces glabrous or sparsely pubescent or uncinate-puberulent, veins of abaxial surface not conspicuously raised; terminal leaflet 2 to 4.8 inches long, 1 to 2.8 inches wide; lateral leaflets 1.6 to 4.8 inches long, .6 to 2 inches wide.

Inflorescence

Racemes, terminal and axillary, simple or sometimes branched; axis uncinate-puberulent; bracts ovate, .25 to .5 inch. Pedicels .08 to .3 inch.

Flower

Papilionaceous; calyx cup-shaped, .16 to .24 inch; corolla lavender to pink with lighter pair of spots at base of banner, .3 to .4 inch; stamens 10, diadelphous; style glabrous.

Fruit

Loments, straight; segments 3-4, triangular to rhombic in outline, margins rounded to obtusely angled abaxially, rounded to obtusely angled adaxially, .28 to .43 inch long, .16 to .2 inch wide; stipe .08 to .2 inch; seeds 1 per segment, flattened, .16 to .18 inch, smooth.

Ecology

Habitat

Maple-basswood and oak-hickory forests and woodlands, river and stream banks, glades, bluffs, old fields, and pastures.

Distribution

East 1/3 of Kansas

Additional Notes