Desmodium Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Desmodium (Desmodium illinoense), the Illinois tick trefoil, is an upright perennial of the pea family, Fabaceae, native to tallgrass prairies, savannas, and roadsides of the central United States from Minnesota and Michigan south to Oklahoma and Texas. It grows 1 to 1.5 meters with a single stiff, hairy stem, trifoliate leaves of oval leaflets 5 to 10 centimeters long with a netted surface, and in midsummer a tall, open raceme of small pink to lavender pea flowers that bumblebees trip open. The pods are flat, triangular-jointed, and covered in hooked hairs that stick fast to fur and clothing. We extract the dried herb.