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Bundle-Flower (Desmanthus)

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Bundle-Flower Genus Details

Bundle-flower is a perennial native from Ohio to Florida. It has showy white flowers in dense clusters. Once planted, it may naturalize in the landscape.

Bundle-Flower Allergy Info

Little or no allergenicity has been reported.

Bundle-Flower Pollen Description

Pollen grains of Desmanthus are monads (other members of this family can be polyads). The grains are prolate, subprolate, or prolate-spheroidal. The amb is triangular or rounded-triangular and 3-colporate. The colpi are long and narrow and the ora is lolongate.

The grains are 30-51 x 21-37 micrometers.

Species in This Genus

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Bundle-Flower (Desmanthus) is a genus of the FABACEAE family.
This genus includes the following allergenic species:

Prairie Bundle-Flower (Desmanthus illinoensis)

Wild Tantan (Desmanthus virgatus)

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Bundle-Flower Genus Location

Allergies By County Map For Bundle-Flower

The shaded areas on the map indicates where the genus has been observed in the United States. Click the map to see a full scale version of these allergy areas.

- Native, observed in a county

- Introduced, observed in a county

- Rarely observed