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Silver-leaf Desmodium
Desmodium uncinatum
Silver-leaf Desmodium
DESCRIPTION
Prostrate to ascending subshrub with stems to 1.5m long, densely hairy with hooked hairs. Three-foliolate leaves with ovate to elliptic leaflets 2–10cm long by 10–60mm wide, both surfaces appressed-hairy, upper surface with a distinctive silver longitudinal stripe. Petioles 20–50mm long, stipules 3–5mm long.
FLOWERS AND FRUIT
Racemes to 30cm long of pink, blue or white flowers 7-10mm long spring to summer, pedicels 4–10 mm long. Pods 10– 30mm long covered in hooked hairs; 3-10 articles each 5–7mm long.
HABITAT AND RANGE
Introduced as a pasture plant, it is also found along roadsides, mainly in southeast Queensland, but also the Coffs Harbour area in New South Wales to the Atherton Tablelands in Queensland. A native of South America.
