OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fabales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Lespedeza capitata   FAMILY Fabaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lespedeza capitata   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)

Lespedeza capitata

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-27-013:

Lespedeza capitata   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Lespedeza capitata

 

COMMON NAME:
Round-headed Lespedeza, Roundhead Bush-clover, Silvery Bush-clover


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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_leca8_001_lvd

        

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JK Marlow    jkm0411f_19

November    York County    SC

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Calyx usually conspicuously longer than fruit, lobes lance-linear, subulate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Lespedeza capitata, Round-headed Lespedeza, Roundhead Bush-clover, Silvery Bush-clover

JK Marlow    jkm0411f_29

November    York County    SC

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Leaflets (2)2.5-5(8) x long as wide; stem-leaf pubescence usually silvery gray, per Weakley's Flora.


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image of Lespedeza capitata, Round-headed Lespedeza, Roundhead Bush-clover, Silvery Bush-clover

JK Marlow    jkm111112_373

November    York County    SC

Racemes numerous, mostly in upper axils, very dense, glomerate or spicate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Lespedeza capitata   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lespedeza capitata   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)
Lespedeza capitata

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-27-013:
Lespedeza capitata   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Lespedeza capitata

 

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1923

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: woodlands and woodland borders, wet meadows, fens, prairies, barrens, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in Coastal Plain (uncommon in Carolina Mountains & Carolina Piedmont) (rare in GA Mountains & GA Piedmont)

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LEAVES:
Odd-pinnately compound: 3 leaflets
Alternate
Stipules are persistent.

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Yellowish
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-lobed calyx
5-parted papilionaceous corolla
10 stamens, diadelphous, 9 and 1
Superior ovary

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Legume

 

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