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:
- Alabama Invasive Plant Council, 2012
- Forest Health Assessment & Applied Sciences Team: New Invaders of the Northeast
- Georgia Exotic Pest Plant Council, 2006
- Kentucky Exotic Pest Plant Council, 2013
- NC Department of Transportation
- SC Exotic Pest Plant Council, 2014
- Tennessee Exotic Pest Plant Council, 2009
- US Forest Service Southern Research Station
- Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation, 2014
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!
- Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses p118
- Invasive Plants, Guide to Identification, Impacts and Control p326
- A Field Guide for the Identification of Invasive Plants in Southern Forests p052
- Invasive Exotic Plants of North Carolina p068
- New Invaders of the Northeast and Northcentral US p045
- Nonnative Invasive Plants of Southern Forests p62
- Native Shrubs and Woody Vines of the Southeast p080
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry p169
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p135
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p172
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p332
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