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Desmodium Canadense

Showy Tick-Trefoil

  • Category: Natives
  • Hardiness Zone: 3
  • Height: 5 Feet
  • Bloom Color: Pink

Popular with hummingbirds and butterflies, and a host plant for caterpillars of the Eastern Tailed Blue, Silver Spotted Skipper and Hoary Edge butterfly. Showy pink flowers bloom for about three weeks in mid-summer. Roots fix nitrogen and it is fine near the water's edge, making it a great replacement for invasive Purple Loosestrife.

Exposure
Partial Shade
Sun
Attracts Wildlife
Butterflies
Hummingbirds
Plant Sub-Group
Perennial Natives