Desmodium incanum, also known as creeping beggarweed, Spanish clover, Spanish tick-trefoil or hitchhikers is a perennial plant native to Central and South America.

Its leaves are elliptic in shape and are hairy, and its flowers are pink to rose in color.

Very frustrating in agriculture are its seedpods, which when ripe easily break off from the plant.

D. incanum is valuable for its ability to fix Nitrogen and thus increase soil fertility, thus it is commonly used as an intercrop.

[2] In West Africa, a blue dye is obtained from Desmodium incanum.