Fabaceae
Common tick clover
Hylodesmum podocarpum
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Hylodesmum
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Common names
By language (3)
- Chinese
- 圆菱叶山蚂蝗, 圓菱葉山螞蝗, 长柄山蚂蝗, 长柄山蚂蟥
- English
- Common tick clover
- Korean
- 개도둑놈의갈고리
Synonyms
- Desmodium podocarpum DC.
- Desmodium podocarpum subsp. podocarpum
- Desmodium podocarpum var. latifolium Matsum.
- Desmodium racemosum var. villosum (Matsum.) Ohwi
- Hedysarum podocarpon (DC.) Spreng.
- Hedysarum podocarpum (DC.) Spreng.
- Meibomia podocarpa (DC.) Kuntze
- Podocarpium podocarpum (DC.) Yen C.Yang & P.H.Huang
- Podocarpium podocarpum var. podocarpum
Photos
Photo: Keisotyo, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Keisotyo, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: coniferconifer from japan, CC BY 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons ![Common tick clover: ヌスビトハギ[盗人萩][Desmodium podocarpum subsp. oxyphyllum]-花と実](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/%E3%83%8C%E3%82%B9%E3%83%93%E3%83%88%E3%83%8F%E3%82%AE%28%E7%9B%97%E4%BA%BA%E8%90%A9%29%28Desmodium_podocarpum_subsp._oxyphyllum%29-%E8%8A%B1%E3%81%A8%E5%AE%9F_%288191815761%29.jpg/1280px-%E3%83%8C%E3%82%B9%E3%83%93%E3%83%88%E3%83%8F%E3%82%AE%28%E7%9B%97%E4%BA%BA%E8%90%A9%29%28Desmodium_podocarpum_subsp._oxyphyllum%29-%E8%8A%B1%E3%81%A8%E5%AE%9F_%288191815761%29.jpg)
Photo: yamatsu, CC0, from Wikimedia Commons ![Common tick clover: ヌスビトハギ[盗人萩][Desmodium podocarpum subsp. oxyphyllum]-葉](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/%E3%83%8C%E3%82%B9%E3%83%93%E3%83%88%E3%83%8F%E3%82%AE%28%E7%9B%97%E4%BA%BA%E8%90%A9%29%28Desmodium_podocarpum_subsp._oxyphyllum%29-%E8%91%89_%288192900678%29.jpg/1280px-%E3%83%8C%E3%82%B9%E3%83%93%E3%83%88%E3%83%8F%E3%82%AE%28%E7%9B%97%E4%BA%BA%E8%90%A9%29%28Desmodium_podocarpum_subsp._oxyphyllum%29-%E8%91%89_%288192900678%29.jpg)
Photo: yamatsu, CC0, from Wikimedia Commons ![Common tick clover: ヌスビトハギ[盗人萩][Desmodium podocarpum subsp. oxyphyllum]-花](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/%E3%83%8C%E3%82%B9%E3%83%93%E3%83%88%E3%83%8F%E3%82%AE%28%E7%9B%97%E4%BA%BA%E8%90%A9%29%28Desmodium_podocarpum_subsp._oxyphyllum%29-%E8%8A%B1_%288192901404%29.jpg/1280px-%E3%83%8C%E3%82%B9%E3%83%93%E3%83%88%E3%83%8F%E3%82%AE%28%E7%9B%97%E4%BA%BA%E8%90%A9%29%28Desmodium_podocarpum_subsp._oxyphyllum%29-%E8%8A%B1_%288192901404%29.jpg)
Photo: yamatsu, CC0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.