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Lespedeza violacea (Linnaeus) Persoon. Subgenus: Lespedeza. Section: Lespedeza. clade: E. Wand Lespedeza. Phen: Jul-Sep; Aug-Nov. Hab: Woodlands and woodland borders. Dist: S. ME and s. ON west to MI and se. MN, south to ne. FL, Panhandle FL, and e. TX.

Origin/Endemic status: Native

Taxonomy Comments: Known in many floras as L. intermedia, this species is actually correctly named L. violacea, which has nomenclatural priority (see Reveal & Barrie 1991).

Synonymy ⓘ: = Ar, Fl3, FNA11.1, K1, K3, K4, Mi, NE, NY, S, Va; = Lespedeza intermedia (S.Watson) Britton – C, F, G, Il, Pa, RAB, SE3, Tat, Tn, Tx, W, WV, Clewell (1966a), Clewell (1966b), Isely (1998), later (superfluous) name; > Lespedeza prairea (Mack. & Bush) Britton – S13; > Lespedeza violacea (L.) Pers. – S13

Links to other floras: = Lespedeza violacea - FNA11.1

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Horticultural Information

NCBG trait

Intro: Erect perennial of dry woodlands and woodland borders.

Stems: Stems with a few branches, light green to brown, usually with flattened hairs.

Leaves: Leaves alternate, petiolate, divided into 3 oval to oblong leaflets, each 1/2-1 1/2 in. long and smooth above and hairy beneath.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers in dense racemes of 4-14 on stalks from upper leaf axils; violet; about 1/4 in. long; bilaterally symmetric and with typical pea-flower shape, including an erect banner-petal bearing a streaked, arch-shaped patch of dark rosy-purple.

Fruits: Fruit a minutely hairy, flattened, broadly oval pod containing a single seed.

Comments:

Height: 8-24 in.

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description: Erect perennial of dry woodlands and woodland borders.

stems: Stems with a few branches, light green to brown, usually with flattened hairs.

leaves: Leaves alternate, petiolate, divided into 3 oval to oblong leaflets, each 1/2-1 1/2 in. long and smooth above and hairy beneath.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers in dense racemes of 4-14 on stalks from upper leaf axils; violet; about 1/4 in. long; bilaterally symmetric and with typical pea-flower shape, including an erect banner-petal bearing a streaked, arch-shaped patch of dark rosy-purple.

fruits: Fruit a minutely hairy, flattened, broadly oval pod containing a single seed.

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