Naked-flowered Tick Trefoil (Desmodium nudiflorum). Nice color! Soft to intense pink blossoms with a unique shape that makes me think of Crow T. Robot from Mystery Science Theater 3000. The Tick Trefoils are just beginning to bloom around my cabin.
The pea-like flowers are on stems that have no leaves and there, you’ve got the name Naked-flowered Tick Trefoil. In the United States it’s native to 34 states, and in much of eastern Canada.
The seeds of Tick Trefoils, called loments, have been known to me since childhood as hitchhikers. They stick all over hiking pants and animal’s fur. Spreading its population here and there.
Bees collect pollen from the flowers. The leaves are eaten by some skipper, butterfly, and moth caterpillars. And there’s that Crow T. Robot again.
