Wild Flowering Plants
| Fabaceae-Faboideae
family Desmodium tortuosum (Swartz) de Candolle, Prodr. 2: 332. 1825. Bas.: Hedysarum tortuosum Swartz (1788). Indigenous quite common herb of moist semi-open spots at lower and middle elevations, especially roadsides. St. Martin, St. Barthélemy, Barbuda, Antigua, Saba, St. Eustatius, Montserrat, Guadeloupe, La Désirade, Marie Galante, Dominica, Martinique, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, the Grenadines, Grenada, Barbados, rest of West Indies, North America, Mesoamerica, South America. |