Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fabales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Lespedeza procumbens
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 Downy Trailing Lespedeza from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lespedeza procumbens
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-27-003:
Lespedeza procumbens
FAMILY
Fabaceae
COMMON NAME:
Downy Trailing Lespedeza, Trailing Bush-clover
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_lepr_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm190520_8566
May Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm160629_105
June McCormick County SC
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JK Marlow s050604_e
June Greenville County SC
Pubescent trifoliate leaves with ovate leaflets, per Wild Flowers of NC, 1st edition.
COMPARE
leaves that are trifoliolate and pinnately compound
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JK Marlow jkm160715_300
July McCormick County SC
Leaflets sparsely to densely spreading, downy short-pubescent on both surfaces, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm190810_0636
August Greenville County SC
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Roxanna Martin rlm82810_312
August Spartanburg County SC
Trailing stems short-pubescent or short-pilose, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Roxanna Martin rlm82910_78
August Spartanburg County SC
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Roxanna Martin rlm83010_104
August Spartanburg County SC
Petals purplish to roseate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Roxanna Martin rlm83010_97
August Spartanburg County SC
Keel about as long as the wing petals, but both shorter than the standard, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm160907_090
September Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm180903_4494
September Greenville County SC
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_l_procumbens_s
September
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JK Marlow s070920_b
September Pickens County SC
Poe Creek State Forest
Slender, pubescent, trailing or weakly ascendent stems, per Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Lespedeza procumbens
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lespedeza procumbens
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-27-003:
Lespedeza procumbens
FAMILY
Fabaceae
810
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common (uncommon in GA Coastal Plain)
Habitat: woodlands and woodland borders, hammocks, per Weakley's Flora
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LEAVES:
Odd-pinnately compound: 3 leaflets
Alternate
Stipules are persistent.
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Purplish
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
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p064
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p037
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p128
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p136
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p173
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p083
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p078