Lespedeza violacea (Linnaeus) Persoon. Subgenus: Lespedeza. Section: Lespedeza. clade: E. Common name: Wand Lespedeza. Phenology: Jul-Sep; Aug-Nov. Habitat: Woodlands and woodland borders. Distribution: 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, Can, Fl3, FNA11.1, K4, Mi, Mo3, NE, NS, NY, POWO, 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; Hedysarum violaceum Linnaeus. Basionym: Hedysarum violaceum L. 1753
Links to other floras: = Lespedeza violacea - FNA11.1
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Heliophily ⓘ: 7
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Horticultural Information
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.
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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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