Large-flowered tickclover

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Large-flowered tick clover leaf

Large-flowered tickclover

Large-flowered tickclover loments

Large-flowered tickclover loments

Large-flowered tick clover inflorescence

Large-flowered tickclover

Large-flowered tick clover flowers and fruit

Large-flowered tickclover loments

Large-flowered tickclover

Large-flowered tick clover flowers

Large-flowered tickclover leaf

Large-flowered tick clover loment

Large-flowered tickclover leaves

Large-flowered tick clover leaf

Large-flowered tickclover

Morphology

Stem

Erect, unbranched below inflorescences, glabrous or sparsely spreading- and hooked-hairy.

Leaves

3-foliolate, nearly whorled at bases of inflorescences, stalks 2 to 6 inches long; leaflets broadly egg-shaped, 3 to 6 inches long, nearly as wide, surfaces sparsely hairy; margins entire; tips tapering to points; 2 lateral leaflets smaller.

Inflorescence

Raceme-like or branched, 12 to 30 inches long, terminal; rachis with tiny hooked hairs.

Flower

Calyces shallowly 2-lobed, finely hairy; corollas papilionaceous, 1/4 to 1/3 inch long, pink or purple, drying bluish; stamens 10, filaments united into 1 group.

Fruit

Jointed pods called loments, flat, with 1-4 triangular to somewhat egg-shaped segments; seeds 1 in each segment, flat, 1/4 inch long, brown.

Ecology

Habitat

Dry or rocky woods, thickets, and wooded stream valleys.

Distribution

East half of Kansas.

Practical Information

Forage Value

Deer will eat the leaves, and turkeys and bobwhite quail will consume the seeds.

Additional Notes