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Fabaceae
Lespedeza

not marked as a favorite taxon *Lespedeza bicolor Turczaninow. Common name: Bicolor Lespedeza, Shrubby Lespedeza. Phenology: Jun-Sep; Aug-Nov. Habitat: ‘Wildlife food plots’, roadsides, forests, woodlands, extensively naturalized and invasive. Distribution: Native of e. Asia.

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Subgenus: Macrolespedeza. Section: Macrolespedeza. clade: F.

Origin/Endemic status: E. and se. Asia

Synonymy ⓘ: = Ar, C, Can, Fl3, FNA11.1, Il, K4, Mi, Mo3, NE, NS, NY, Pa, POWO, RAB, S, SE3, Tn, Va, W, WH3, WV, Akiyama (1988), Isely (1998); = n/a — Tat. Basionym: Lespedeza bicolor Turcz. 1840

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

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Heliophily ⓘ: 8

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image #1 of Lespedeza bicolor© Bruce A. Sorrie | Original Image ⭷
image #2 of Lespedeza bicolor© Alaina Krakowiak, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Alaina Krakowiak source CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG | Original Image ⭷
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image #4 of Lespedeza bicolor© Bruce A. Sorrie | Original Image ⭷
image #5 of Lespedeza bicolor© Gary P. Fleming | Original Image ⭷
image #6 of Lespedeza bicolor© Bruce A. Sorrie | Original Image ⭷
image #7 of Lespedeza bicolor© Bruce Sorrie | Original Image ⭷
image #8 of Lespedeza bicolor© Gage Barnes, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Gage Barnes source CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG | Original Image ⭷
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Horticultural Information

NCBG trait

Intro: Erect, deciduous shrub found in wildlife food plots, roadsides and forests. Native of e. Asia.

Stems: Stems thick and ridged, loosely branched, covered with stiff hairs.

Leaves: Leaves alternate; on petioles with persistent, needle-like stipules; divided into 3 elliptic to broadly oval leaflets, each about 1/3-1 in. long, blunt-tipped with a tiny point and rough-hairy.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers in small clusters from upper leaf axils and at branch ends; rose-purple; 1/3-1/2 in. long; bilaterally symmetric and with typical pea-flower shape, including an erect banner petal marked with darker purple.

Fruits: Fruit a hairy, flattened, broadly elliptic pod with a long point and containing a single seed.

Comments: Introduced to the U.S. primarily to provide food and cover for bobwhite quail and other upland game birds, and for erosion control.

Height: 3-10 ft.

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description: Erect, deciduous shrub found in wildlife food plots, roadsides and forests. Native of e. Asia.

stems: Stems thick and ridged, loosely branched, covered with stiff hairs.

leaves: Leaves alternate; on petioles with persistent, needle-like stipules; divided into 3 elliptic to broadly oval leaflets, each about 1/3-1 in. long, blunt-tipped with a tiny point and rough-hairy.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers in small clusters from upper leaf axils and at branch ends; rose-purple; 1/3-1/2 in. long; bilaterally symmetric and with typical pea-flower shape, including an erect banner petal marked with darker purple.

fruits: Fruit a hairy, flattened, broadly elliptic pod with a long point and containing a single seed.

comments: Introduced to the U.S. primarily to provide food and cover for bobwhite quail and other upland game birds, and for erosion control.

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