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Desmodium canadense
bush trefoil
Synonyms
Hedysarum canadenseBuy this plant
Botanical details
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Native to GB / Ireland
- No
- 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
Correct
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