Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fabales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Lespedeza hirta +
FAMILY
Fabaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
You may find it helpful to read Lespedeza Species in the Carolinas by Bill Stringer.
Learn more about Hairy Bush-clover from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lespedeza hirta +
FAMILY
Fabaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-27-012:
Lespedeza hirta
FAMILY
Fabaceae
COMMON NAME:
Hairy Bush-clover, Hairy Lespedeza, Silvery Lespedeza
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JK Marlow jkm190416_7456
April Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm200422_4035
April Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm200525_5195
May Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm060603_020
June Pickens County SC
Field
Petioles of middle leaves 1-1.5cm, those of upper leaves short to none, per Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses.
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JK Marlow jkm060603_032
June Pickens County SC
Field
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JK Marlow jkm190726_0278
July Transylvania County NC
DuPont State Forest
Racemes on often-elongate peduncles equaling or longer than subtending leaves, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm160816_004
August Oconee County SC
Leaflets 1.3-1.8 x long as wide, per Weakley's Flora.
COMPARE
leaves that are trifoliolate and pinnately compound
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JK Marlow jkm190825_0918
August Transylvania County NC
DuPont State Forest
Hairy calyx lobes much longer than the petals, per Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses.
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JK Marlow jkm060903_083
September Greenville County SC
Unlike most Lespedeza species, its flower clusters are widely scattered, per Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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JK Marlow jkm060903_089
September Greenville County SC
This species has the widest leaflets of any others in the genus, per Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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JK Marlow jkm060903_095b
September Greenville County SC
The standard 6-8mm long and bearing a purplish spot, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm0510d_23b
October Pickens County SC
Field
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JK Marlow jkm111029_082
October Pickens County SC
Legume 5-8mm long, shorter than the lobes of the long calyx, per Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses.
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JK Marlow jkm161001_060
September Chesterfield County SC
Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Lespedeza hirta +
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lespedeza hirta +
FAMILY
Fabaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-27-012:
Lespedeza hirta
FAMILY
Fabaceae
808
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it . Var. hirta is found in woodlands and woodland borders, whereas var. curtissii is found in sandhills and dry-to-moist savannas, per Weakley's Flora
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LEAVES:
Odd-pinnately compound: 3 leaflets
Alternate
Stipules are persistent.
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Yellowish-white
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 p116
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p064
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p088
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p036
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p172
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p084
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p050