Common Name: prostrate ticktrefoil, round-leaved ticktrefoilScientific Name: Desmodium rotundifolium DC.Family Name: Fabaceae (Leguminosae) - Pea or Bean FamilyIdentification NotesLife Cyclenative perennial, reproducing by seed Stemsprostrate and trailing on the ground, branched, dense soft hairy, often reddish Leavesalternate, compound with three leaflets, round or nearly so, terminal lobe with wedges-shaped base, hairy above and below, leaf stipules triangular, pointed and reflexed Flowerslavender to violet, irregular, lower petals form projecting structure; terminal and axillary panicles Seed Podsloment, jointed 3- 6 times, hairy