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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Lespedeza angustifolia
FAMILY
Fabaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Narrowleaf Lespedeza from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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
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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).
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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).
COMPARE
leaves that are trifoliolate and pinnately compound
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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
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)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
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
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p087
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p197
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p135
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p172
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011) p050
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