Desmodium batocaulon (San Pedro Tick-Trefoil)
Family
FABACEAE
Synonyms
MEIBOMIA BATOCAULIS
Common Name
San Pedro Tick-Trefoil
Distribution
New Mexico and Arizona to Mexico; San Luis Mountains, New Mexico [Hidalgo county]; San Pedro River, Sonora, Mexico [type locality] (Woot. & Standl. 1915). Greenlee, Graham, Cochise, Santa Cruz and Pima counties; southern New Mexico and Arizona and northern Mexico (Kearney & Peebles 1960). Central and southern Arizona into New Mexico and south into northern Mexico (Shreve & Wiggins 1964).
Habitat
Common, often in pine woods, 3,500 to 6,500 ft. (Kearney & Peebles 1960). Rocky slopes and often in pine forests, mainly Upper Sonoran and Transition Zones, but entering upper margin of Lower Sonoran along canyons (Shreve & Wiggins 1964).
Important Literature
Kearney, T.H. and R.H. Peebles. 1960. Arizona flora, 2nd edition with supplement. University of California Press, Berkeley.
Shreve, F. and I.L. Wiggins. 1964. Vegetation and flora of the Sonoran Desert. Two volumes. Stanford University Press.
Wooton, E.O. and P.S. Standley. 1915. Flora of New Mexico. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium, Smithsonian Institution, Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.
Information Compiled By
David L. Bleakly 1998
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