*Lespedeza bicolor Turczaninow. Subgenus: Macrolespedeza. Section: Macrolespedeza. clade: F. 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.
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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Horticultural Information
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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