PINK AND ROSE-COLORED FLOWERS 
Sharp-leaved Tick Trefoil {Desmodium grandiflorum). 
Pulse family, June to September. 
An upright herb with leaves all crowded at the end oj the stem, 
P'om which arises a Imig raceme of tiny papilionaceous flowers. 
The leaflets are broadly egg-shaped, pointed, except perhaps a 
rounded end one. Pods, long-stalked, with two or three joints, 
Open woods. Naked-flowered Tick Trefoil {D. nudiflorum) is 
similar, but the raceme is on a long leafless stalk about two feet 
high. The leaves, crowded at the top of a separate stem, have 
three leaflets, broadly egg-shaped, whitish beneath. Pods, 
long-stalked, generally three-jointed. Common in woods. 
8HARP-LE/WED TICK TREFOIL 
{J)esmodivm qrdndifJorum') 
