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| Indicator Species | ||
| Showy Tick-trefoil (Desmodium canadense) | ||
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This member of the pea family has large 1 cm (½ inch) rose-purple flowers arranged in dense racemes at the top of a hairy, leafy stem. Like many other prairie wildlfowers, showy tick-trefoil depend on bees and other insects for pollination. Tall and robust, it reaches 1.8 m (6ft) in height, almost as tall as some of the grasses it grows with. The leaves are clover-like and divided into three leaflets, the middle one with a long stalk. The seed pods have 3-5 joints and are very sticky when mature, clinging easily to clothing or fur. | |
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