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 angustifolia   FAMILY Fabaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lespedeza angustifolia   FAMILY Fabaceae

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

Lespedeza angustifolia

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-27-014:

Lespedeza angustifolia   FAMILY Fabaceae

INCLUDING Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)

Lespedeza angustifolia

INCLUDING Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)

Lespedeza hirta ar. intercursa

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

Lespedeza angustifolia

 

COMMON NAME:
Narrow-leaved Lespedeza, Narrowleaf Bush-clover


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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_lean_001_lvd

        

image of Lespedeza angustifolia, Narrow-leaved Lespedeza, Narrowleaf Bush-clover

Bruce A. Sorrie    bas_l_angustifolia1

August    Moore County    NC

Seeds of native bush-clovers are important in the diet of bobwhite quail, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011).

image of Lespedeza angustifolia, Narrow-leaved Lespedeza, Narrowleaf Bush-clover

Bruce A. Sorrie    bas_l_angustifolia3

August    Moore County    NC

Slender stiffly ascending herb. Leaves almost sessile, leaflets linear, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).


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image of Lespedeza angustifolia, Narrow-leaved Lespedeza, Narrowleaf Bush-clover

Bruce A. Sorrie    bas_l_angustifolia3b

August    Moore County    NC

Flowers whitish with a purplish base, borne in dense long-stalked spikes, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).

 

 

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lespedeza angustifolia   FAMILY Fabaceae

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-27-014:
Lespedeza angustifolia   FAMILY Fabaceae

INCLUDING Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Lespedeza angustifolia

INCLUDING Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Lespedeza hirta ar. intercursa

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

3466

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhill-pocosin ecotones and dry to moist pine savannas, mountain bogs, in the Piedmont especially in barrens with hardpan soils, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

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

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Yellowish-white, whitish with a purple base
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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