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You may find it helpful to read Lespedeza Species in the Carolinas by Bill Stringer.
Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fabales
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 (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 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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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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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.