Round-leaved Tick Trefoil – Native Plant of the Day 09/04/2023
Photo from 9/5/2013. Location: Cedar Glade, Pigeon Mountain East, Walker County, GA.
More photos / info at the Desmodium rotundifolium detail page.
Round-Leaved Tick Trefoil – Desmodium rotundifolium
Also NPOD 12/10/2013, 09/19/2014, 09/19/2015, 09/04/2016, 09/04/2017, 09/04/2018, 09/04/2019, 09/04/2020, 09/04/2021, 09/04/2022
Can you grow these in Minnesota?
Not being a gardener, I couldn’t say with certainty, but their native range is as far north as New Hampshire and Vermont and westward to Illinois, so it’s quite possible it could grow in Minnesota. They are a plant of dry forests and woodlands, so proper habitat might be an issue for a garden. I’m always reluctant to recommend planting something outside its native area, but this plant doesn’t seem to be particularly weedy.
I recently found some in Montgomery County, Maryland. Interesting that the range of
this and other plants is so large.