Panicled-leaf Tick Trefoil or Beggar's Lice
Desmodium paniculatum
                    
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2017 Photograph, Panicled Tick Trefoil, Panicled-leaf Tick Trefoil or Beggar's Lice (Desmodium paniculatum, Legume or Pea family, Fabaceae), Occoquan Bay NWR, Woodbridge, Virginia, © 2023.
The flowers are small and many people never see them.  But they have most likely had the 'pleasure' of picking those pesky Velcro seeds off their socks!
Jian Zhe Li

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