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Samoan clover
Desmodium scorpiurus
Desmodium scorpiurus, the Samoan clover or scorpion ticktrefoil, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It is native to the New World tropics and subtropics, and it has been widely introduced to Africa, India, Malesia, Australia, and the islands of the Pacific as a livestock forage. A spreading prostrate perennial with stems about 50 cm (20 in) long, it is typically found in the seasonally dry tropics at elevations from 0 to 1,460 m (0 to 4,790 ft).
== References ==
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 161754.