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

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



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lespedeza violacea   FAMILY Fabaceae

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

Lespedeza intermedia

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-27-009:

Lespedeza intermedia   FAMILY Fabaceae

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

Lespedeza violacea

 

COMMON NAME:
Wand Lespedeza, Wandlike Bush-clover, Violet Bush-clover


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image of Lespedeza violacea, Wand Lespedeza, Wandlike Bush-clover, Violet Bush-clover

JK Marlow    jkm190802_0473

August    Greenville County    SC

Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area

image of Lespedeza violacea, Wand Lespedeza, Wandlike Bush-clover, Violet Bush-clover

JK Marlow    jkm190825_0936

August    Transylvania County    NC

DuPont State Forest

Leaflets (1.3-) 1.8-3 (-3.5)x long as wide, per Weakley's Flora (2015).

image of Lespedeza violacea, Wand Lespedeza, Wandlike Bush-clover, Violet Bush-clover

JK Marlow    jkm190825_0938

August    Transylvania County    NC

DuPont State Forest

Legumes strigose, those produced by chasmogamous flowers 5-7mm long, per Leguminosae (Fabaceae), vol 3, part 2, Vascular flora of the southeastern United States (Isely, 1990).

image of Lespedeza violacea, Wand Lespedeza, Wandlike Bush-clover, Violet Bush-clover

JK Marlow    jkm180903_4496

September    Greenville County    SC

Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area

image of Lespedeza violacea, Wand Lespedeza, Wandlike Bush-clover, Violet Bush-clover

JK Marlow    jkm180903_4497

September    Greenville County    SC

Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area

Pubescence of the stem appressed, per Weakley's Flora (2015).

image of Lespedeza violacea, Wand Lespedeza, Wandlike Bush-clover, Violet Bush-clover

JK Marlow    jkm180903_4498

September    Greenville County    SC

Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area

Flowers in dense racemes. Keel petals usually shorter than the wing petals, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Lespedeza violacea, Wand Lespedeza, Wandlike Bush-clover, Violet Bush-clover

JK Marlow    jkm220909_9802

September    Transylvania County    NC

DuPont State Forest

image of Lespedeza violacea, Wand Lespedeza, Wandlike Bush-clover, Violet Bush-clover

JK Marlow    jkm220909_9803

September    Transylvania County    NC

DuPont State Forest

image of Lespedeza violacea, Wand Lespedeza, Wandlike Bush-clover, Violet Bush-clover

Terry Holdsclaw    tdh_lespedeza_violacea_1

September    Catawba County    NC

image of Lespedeza violacea, Wand Lespedeza, Wandlike Bush-clover, Violet Bush-clover

Terry Holdsclaw    tdh_lespedeza_violacea_1b

September    Catawba County    NC

Upper surface of leaflets glabrous (sometimes strigose along midrib only), per Weakley's Flora (2015).

image of Lespedeza violacea, Wand Lespedeza, Wandlike Bush-clover, Violet Bush-clover

Terry Holdsclaw    tdh_lespedeza_violacea_2

September    Catawba County    NC

Uppermost flowers commonly exceed their subtending leaves; lower flowers don't, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Lespedeza violacea, Wand Lespedeza, Wandlike Bush-clover, Violet Bush-clover

Terry Holdsclaw    tdh_lespedeza_violacea_3

September    Catawba County    NC

image of Lespedeza violacea, Wand Lespedeza, Wandlike Bush-clover, Violet Bush-clover

JK Marlow    jkm231021_6145

October    Greenville County    SC

 

 

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lespedeza violacea   FAMILY Fabaceae

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-27-009:
Lespedeza intermedia   FAMILY Fabaceae

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

809

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: woodlands and woodland borders, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in Mountains, uncommon in Piedmont, rare in Coastal Plain

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

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Purplish/ Light violet
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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