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This plant provides food for ground birds and deer. It provides cover with long grasses for birds.
Seeds are spread by sticking to animal fur.
It can be used in seed mixtures for prairie restoration. (USDA PLANTS)
Habitat Information: This plant is animal dispersed. Its seeds stick to clothes or animal fur very readily in order to take the seed far away from the parent plant. (Tall Grass Ontario)
Showy Tick Trefoil is in the pea or legume family. All members of the pea family are 'nitrogen fixers', which means that the plant has in nodes along the roots which contain bacteria that take nitrogen from the atmosphere, and convert it into a form that plants can use. (Evergreen)
Garden Uses: This plant has a very showy pink pea flower, and is very drought tolerant, adapting to many soil conditions, generally a lovely and important early successional plant that is good for restoration areas. It does have an animal dispersed seed, so it can be annoying when the seed is close to paths in gardens catching on clothes when passing by. A solution is to keep the plant away from direct contact with paths. Caution is advised for school ground sites because of this trait. (Evergreen)
Insect Relationships: The following study by Michigan State University detailed insects that were attracted to specific native plant species. The following insects were shown to be attracted to this plant ""Natural Enemies Attracted: Small numbers of Thomisidae and Chalcidoidea. Pests Attracted: Large numbers of Japanese beetles. Medium numbers of aphids and thrips. Small numbers of lygus bugs, leafhoppers and leaf beetles. Bees attracted: Low numbers (less than 1 bee per meter square in a 30 second sample) of bees including sweat bees and bumble bees."" (Michigan State University)
Green Roof: This drought hardy plant has been grown in soil levels 5 inches and up with excellent results.
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