NameThatPlant.net: Lespedeza angustifolia

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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Lespedeza angustifolia FAMILY Fabaceae Go to FSUS key

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Learn more about Narrowleaf Lespedeza from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lespedeza angustifolia FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-27-014:

Lespedeza angustifolia FAMILY Fabaceae

COMMON NAME:
Narrow-leaved Lespedeza, Narrowleaf Bush-clover

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Lespedeza angustifolia FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lespedeza angustifolia FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-27-014:
Lespedeza angustifolia FAMILY Fabaceae

3466

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhill-pocosin ecotones and dry to moist pine savannas, mountain bogs, in the Piedmont especially in barrens with hardpan soils, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.

LEAVES:
Odd-pinnately compound: 3 leaflets
Alternate
Stipules are persistent.

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Yellowish-white, whitish with a purple base
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-lobed calyx
5-parted papilionaceous corolla
10 stamens, diadelphous, 9 and 1
Superior ovary

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Legume

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