Chicone Creek Woods (98 ha, Dorchester County) was acquired in 1990 by the State of Maryland, with assistance from The Nature Conservancy, for protection of the only statewide occurrence of a State Endangered (G2S1) legume, Desmodium ochroleucum M. A. Curtis (Cream-flowered tick-trefoil), other rare plant taxa, and a “rich woods” herbaceous flora. Desmodium ochroleucum is a sprawling, perennial, herbaceous legume with trifoliate leathery leaves on two or more 1-2 m branches arising from a caudex (Gleason and Cronquist 1991, Schotz 2003). In Maryland, plant emergence is usually in early May, flowering in August and September, and leaf dehiscence in late October or early November. Prior to this project, D. ochroleucum only occurred along the banks of the sandy road bisecting this forest where periodic cutting of woody plants for roadside maintenance prevented its extirpation.