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Annual

Non-native: east Asia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Common (rare in GA)

Look for it in fields, roadsides, disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora

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This plant may be causing problems in natural areas outside its native range, according to authorities such as:

LEAVES:
Pinnately compound: 3 leaflets
Alternate

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!

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.

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fabales

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Kummerowia stipulacea FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 098-27-001:
Lespedeza stipulacea FAMILY Fabaceae

COMMON NAME:
Korean-clover, Korean Lespedeza

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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_k_stipulacea_4

September

Leaflets emarginate at the apex, conspicuously spreading-ciliate, per Weakley's Flora.

COMPARE leaves that are trifoliolate and pinnately compound

Terry Holdsclaw tdh_kummerowia_stipulacea

September Catawba County NC

Mid-stem leaves with petioles 4-10mm long; stems antrorsely appressed-strigose, per Weakley's Flora.