Desmodium purpureum

Definitions of Desmodium purpureum
  1. noun
    West Indian forage plant cultivated in southern United States as forage and to improve soil
    synonyms: Desmodium tortuosum, beggarweed
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    type of:
    beggar lice, beggar's lice, tick trefoil
    any of various tropical and subtropical plants having trifoliate leaves and rough sticky pod sections or loments
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