Lespedeza angustifolia (Pursh) Elliott. Subgenus: Lespedeza. Section: Lespedezariae. clade: D. Common name: Narrow-leaved Lespedeza. Phenology: Aug-Oct; Sep-Nov. Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhill-pocosin ecotones and dry to moist pine savannas, mountain bogs, in the Piedmont especially in barrens with hardpan soils. Distribution: MA south to c. peninsular FL, west to s. MS, essentially a Southeastern Coastal Plain endemic, rarely disjunct inland to w. NC, c. GA, ec. TN (Chester, Wofford, & Kral 1997; Tennessee Flora Committee 2015), and sc. KY (T. Littlefield, pers.comm., 2020).
Origin/Endemic status: Native
Synonymy ⓘ: = C, Fl3, FNA11.1, G, K4, NE, NS, NY, Pa, POWO, RAB, S, S13, SE3, Tat, Tn, Va, W, WH3, Clewell (1966a), Clewell (1966b), Isely (1998); > Lespedeza angustifolia (Pursh) Elliott — F; > Lespedeza hirta (L.) Hornem. var. intercursa Fernald — F; Lespedeza capitata Michaux var. angustifolia Pursh. Basionym: Lespedeza capitata Michx. var. angustifolia Pursh 1814
Links to other floras: = Lespedeza angustifolia - FNA11.1
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Wetland Indicator Status:
- Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: FAC
- Eastern Mountains and Piedmont: FAC
- Northcentral & Northeast: FAC
Heliophily ⓘ: 8
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Horticultural Information
Intro: Erect to ascending perennial of sandhill-pocosin ecotones and dry to moist savannas as well as mountain bogs.
Stems: Stems mostly unbranched, covered with thin, longitudinal lines and closely pressed hairs.
Leaves: Leaves alternate; on short petioles with linear stipules that soon drop; divided into 3 narrowly linear leaflets, each 1/2-1 1/2 in. long and often hairy.
Inforescence:
Flowers: Flowers in a dense cylindric to spherical spikes (1/3-1 in. long), on stalks from upper leaf axils; yellowish-white to cream; about 1/4 in. long; bilaterally symmetric and resembling pea-flower structure.
Fruits: Fruit a hairy, flattened, elliptic to oblong pod containing a single seed.
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Height: to 4 1/2 ft.
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description: Erect to ascending perennial of sandhill-pocosin ecotones and dry to moist savannas as well as mountain bogs.
stems: Stems mostly unbranched, covered with thin, longitudinal lines and closely pressed hairs.
leaves: Leaves alternate; on short petioles with linear stipules that soon drop; divided into 3 narrowly linear leaflets, each 1/2-1 1/2 in. long and often hairy.
inflorescence:
flowers: Flowers in a dense cylindric to spherical spikes (1/3-1 in. long), on stalks from upper leaf axils; yellowish-white to cream; about 1/4 in. long; bilaterally symmetric and resembling pea-flower structure.
fruits: Fruit a hairy, flattened, elliptic to oblong pod containing a single seed.
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