Desmodium tortuosum

{{Short description|Species of plant in the family Fabaceae}}

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|image_caption=Leaves and seedpods

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|image2_caption=Flower

|genus=Desmodium

|species=tortuosum

|authority=(Sw.) DC.

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• Desmodium physocarpos {{small|Vogel}}
• Desmodium pulcherrimum {{small|Shuttlew. ex Griseb.}}
• Desmodium purpureum {{small|(Mill.) Fawc. & Rendle}}
• Desmodium stipulaceum {{small|DC.}}
• Desmodium tortuosum var. hirtellum {{small|DC.}}
• Hedysarum purpureum {{small|Mill.}}
• Hedysarum stipulaceum {{small|Sessé ex DC.}}
• Hedysarum tortuosum {{small|Sw.}}
• Meibomia physocarpa {{small|(Vogel) Kuntze}}
• Meibomia purpurea {{small|(Mill.) Vail}}
• Meibomia stipulacea {{small|(DC.) Kuntze}}
• Meibomia tortuosa {{small|(Sw.) Kuntze}}

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Desmodium tortuosum, the twisted tick trefoil, dixie tick trefoil, tall tick clover, Florida beggarweed, and giant beggar weed, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae.{{cite web |url=https://gd.eppo.int/taxon/DEDTO |title=Desmodium tortuosum (DEDTO) |author= |date=2022 |website=EPPO Global Database |publisher=European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization |access-date=24 June 2022 }} It is native to Latin America, and widely introduced as a forage to much of the rest of the world's subtropics and tropics.{{cite POWO |id=1028008-2 |title=Desmodium tortuosum (Sw.) DC. |access-date=24 June 2022 }}{{cite web |url=https://www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/18238 |title=Datasheet Desmodium tortuosum (Florida beggarweed) |author= |date=19 November 2019 |website=Invasive Species Compendium |publisher=CAB International |access-date=24 June 2022 }}