Desmodium incanum, also known as creeping beggarweed, Spanish clover, Spanish tick-trefoil or hitchhikers is a perennial plant native to Central and South America. [1] In Hawaiʻi it is known as kaʻimi or kaimi clover from the Hawaiian for "seeker".

2019年9月26日 · Postemergence Control: Postemergence herbicide products that contain sulfentrazone (Dismiss), thiocarbazone-methyl (Celsius), dimethylamine salts (Trimec) are recommended to control creeping beggarweed in most warm season grasses.

Scientific Name: Desmodium incanum. Weed Family: Fabaceae. Creeping beggarweed is a perennial weed that develops from a large taproot. Creeping beggarweed has many branched runners capable of rooting at nodes along the stems. …

2014年1月13日 · Desmodium incanum (creeping beggerweed, Spanish clover); ripening seedpods. MISC LZ Piiholo, Maui< Hawaii, USA. January, 2009. Originally from New World tropics and subtropics, D. incanum is a perennial shrub that was promoted as a forage crop around the world, with further accidental spread.

2022年6月15日 · Her shoes’ hitchhikers are known as creeping beggarweed (Desmodium incanum), and the plant is extremely successful at attaching to traveling mammals. The structure of the plant is completely built around seed distribution.

Over four hundred species of Desmodium are native to tropical areas around the world. This species can be found around the world but is presumed to be native to Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean. Leaves are composed of three …

2022年9月22日 · Creeping beggarweed (Desmodium incanum) is a non-native landscape weed indigenous to Central and South America. This species was originally prized for its nitrogen fixing abilities and use as a forage plant.

Desmodium incanum (kaimi clover, spanish clover) is a perennial leguminous herb native to tropical and subtropical America. The name Kaimi clover comes from the Hawaiian word for “seeker”. Initially, this species was highly valued for its …

Desmodium incanum (Sw.) DC. First published in Prodr. 2: 332 (1825) The native range of this species is Mexico to Tropical America. It is a perennial or subshrub and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome. It is used to treat unspecified medicinal disorders, as animal food and a medicine and for food.

Habitat: Desmodium incanum is a weedy species growing in Human Altered environments such as yards and abandoned fields. D. incanum also grows in Pine Woodlands and Dry Broadleaf Evergreen Formation – Woodlands (open scrublands).