Dillen's Tick Clover - Desmodium perplexum

A trip to Swope Park's Rocky Point Glade revealed a forest understory full of this pretty tick-clover (Desmodium perplexum). Captured 7/12/2021 at Rocky Point Glade.

The leaves are clustered at the bottom of the plant in a basal rosette. The leaves are made up of three leaflets.

Pretty pale-pink pea-shaped flowers.

The seeds covered in hooked hairs that allow them to stick onto the fur of animals and the socks of hikers.

Pretty in Pink