Beggarweed

Beggarweed
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or tick trefoil, leguminous plant (Desmodium purpureum) native to the West Indies and sown in the S United States for green manure and for forage; it has high nutritive value and is palatable to stock.

Beggarweed [English]: Desmodium tortuosum
Beggary [English]: Fumaria vaillantii
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Beginning Daylily [English]: Hemerocallis 'Beginning' ...

comparison of the leaves of silverleaf desmodium (Desmodium uncinatum), top, and the very similar creeping beggarweed (Desmodium incanum), bottom (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
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' Many of its popular and local names testify to the bad reputation it had among farmers, such as Beggarweed, Hellweed, Strangle Tare, and Scaldweed, the latter from the scalded appearance it gives to bean crops.

three-flowered beggarweed Desmodium triflorum
three-flowered nightshade Solanum triflorum
threelobe false-mallow Malvastrum coromandelianum
Thunberg's bush-clover Lespedeza thunbergii
Thunberg's meadowsweet Spiraea thunbergii ...

See also: Vetch, Clove, Green, Bean, Clover