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Desmodium tortuosum
West Indian cock's head
Other common names
beggarweedSynonyms
Botanical details
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Native to the UK
- No
- Potentially harmful
- Genus
Desmodium
- Genus description
Desmodium can be herbaceous perennials or deciduous shrubs or subshrubs, with pinnate or palmate leaves and loose racemes of small, pea-like pink or white flowers in late summer and autumn
- Name status
Unresolved
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