OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lespedeza procumbens   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)

Lespedeza procumbens

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-27-003:

Lespedeza procumbens   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Lespedeza procumbens

 

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.


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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 (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

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JK Marlow    jkm190810_0636

August    Greenville County    SC

Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area

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Roxanna Martin    rlm82810_312

August    Spartanburg County    SC

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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 (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

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Roxanna Martin    rlm83010_97

August    Spartanburg County    SC

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JK Marlow    jkm160907_090

September    Greenville County    SC

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JK Marlow    jkm180903_4494

September    Greenville County    SC

Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area

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JK Marlow    jkm220906_9688

September    Greenville County    SC

Bald Rock Heritage Preserve

Trailing stems short-pubescent or short-pilose, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

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JK Marlow    jkm230905_5195

September    Pickens County    SC

Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve

Keel about as long as the wing petals, but both shorter than the standard, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

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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 (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005).

 

 

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lespedeza procumbens   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)
Lespedeza procumbens

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-27-003:
Lespedeza procumbens   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Lespedeza procumbens

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

810

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: woodlands and woodland borders, hammocks, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common

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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

 

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