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Tag: Desmodium incanum

Weeds of Wednesday: Loment Lament

exploreorca's avatar by exploreorcaFebruary 3, 2021June 30, 2024

Loment is botanical term for a string of seeds that separate on some species of plants in the pea family, Fabaceae. Most folks are not fond of loments, but they are a very effective dispersal mechanism. At the Oslo Riverfront…

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Weeds of Wednesday: Tag-A-Longs

exploreorca's avatar by exploreorcaDecember 27, 2017August 4, 2021

Delta Dawn, our puppy, was mortified to get covered with the seeds pods of creeping beggarweed (Desmodium incanum) when she visited the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory adjacent to Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area (ORCA). Plants in this genus have developed a…

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