Wild Flowering Plants
Fabaceae-Faboideae
family Desmodium scorpiurus (Swartz) Desvaux, J. Bot. Agric. 1: 122, t. 5, f. 13. 1813. Bas.: Hedysarum scorpiurus Swartz (1788). Indigenous quite common low trailing herb of moist, often sandy, flat areas by the sea. Quite common Castries. Very rare/absent elsewhere. Antigua, Saba, St. Eustatius, St. Kitts, Montserrat, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Grenada, Greater Antilles, Tobago, Trinidad, Mesoamerica, South America. |