Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
You may find it helpful to read Lespedeza Species in the Carolinas by Bill Stringer.
Check out EDDMapS.org to see where this has been reported.
Learn more about Lespedeza from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fabales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Lespedeza bicolor
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lespedeza bicolor
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-27-005:
Lespedeza bicolor
FAMILY
Fabaceae
COMMON NAME:
Bicolor Lespedeza, Bicolor, Shrubby Lespedeza
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Look for it in "wildlife food plots," roadsides, forests, per Weakley's Flora
Shrub; Forb
Perennial
Non-native: east Asia
Documented growing wild in
GA
NC
SC
Common
This plant is causing problems in natural areas outside its native range, according to authorities such as:
LEAVES:
Deciduous
Odd-pinnately compound: 3 leaflets
Alternate
Stipules are persistent.
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Purplish/ Magenta
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!
Lespedeza bicolor FAMILY Fabaceae
Bicolor Lespedeza, Bicolor, Shrubby Lespedeza
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
You may find it helpful to read Lespedeza Species in the Carolinas by Bill Stringer.
Click the thumbnails to see larger pictures.
JK Marlow jkm120804_338
August Transylvania County NC
DuPont State Forest
Raceme of 5-15 well-spaced flowers in upper axils & exceeding upper leaves, per Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses.
JK Marlow jkm120804_346
August Transylvania County NC
DuPont State Forest
A much-branched woody shrub to 10' tall, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
JK Marlow jkm0509b_01b
September Transylvania County NC
DuPont State Forest
Flowers pea-type, rosy-purple to white (bicolor), per Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses.
JK Marlow s070927_h
September Pickens County SC
Jocassee Gorges
Each leaflet elliptic-ovate with a hairlike tip; underside lighter, per Nonnative Invasive Plants of Southern Forests.
COMPARE
leaves that are trifoliolate and pinnately compound
JK Marlow s070927_h2
September Pickens County SC
Jocassee Gorges
Legume broadly elliptic, 6-8 mm long, tapering to both ends, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
JK Marlow jkm081026_044
October Oconee County SC
Sumter National Forest: Andrew Pickens Ranger District
Lespedeza legumes are one-seeded, indehiscent, and flattened, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.