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Common Name: Illinois Bundleflower

Other Names: Prairie Mimosa, Prairie Bundleflower

Species Name: Desmanthus illinoensis

Plant Type: Legume

Family Name: Mimosaceae, Mimosa Family

 

 

 

 

Plant Facts  
Origin Native
Duration Perennial
Distribution in the U.S. Alabama, New Mexico, North to the Dakotas, Minnesota and Ohio
Distribution in Oklahoma Throughout the state

 

 

ID Characteristics

 

 

Habitat/Ecology  
Soil Type Various moderately-textured soils; does not tolerate coarse sand or dense clay
Habitat Variety of wet or dry soils in prairies and open woods, borrow ditches
Successional Stage Early to mid

 

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