OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

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



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lespedeza repens   FAMILY Fabaceae

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

Lespedeza repens

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-27-004:

Lespedeza repens   FAMILY Fabaceae

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

Lespedeza repens

 

COMMON NAME:
Smooth Trailing Lespedeza, Creeping Lespedeza, Creeping Bush-clover


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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_lere2_001_lvd

        

image of Lespedeza repens, Smooth Trailing Lespedeza, Creeping Lespedeza, Creeping Bush-clover

JK Marlow    jkm190520_8539

May    Greenville County    SC

image of Lespedeza repens, Smooth Trailing Lespedeza, Creeping Lespedeza, Creeping Bush-clover

JK Marlow    jkm120626_270b

June    Greenville County    SC

Petals subequal in length, or keel slightly exceeding wing petals and standard, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Lespedeza repens, Smooth Trailing Lespedeza, Creeping Lespedeza, Creeping Bush-clover

JK Marlow    jkm120626_273

June    Greenville County    SC

image of Lespedeza repens, Smooth Trailing Lespedeza, Creeping Lespedeza, Creeping Bush-clover

JK Marlow    jkm120626_273b

June    Greenville County    SC

Keel subequal to the wings, or shorter, per Weakley's Flora.

image of Lespedeza repens, Smooth Trailing Lespedeza, Creeping Lespedeza, Creeping Bush-clover

JK Marlow    jkm120626_275

June    Greenville County    SC

Plants trailing at maturity, stem slender, wiry, appressed-pubescent, strigose, per Weakley's Flora.

image of Lespedeza repens, Smooth Trailing Lespedeza, Creeping Lespedeza, Creeping Bush-clover

JK Marlow    jkm120626_275b

June    Greenville County    SC

Leaflets elliptic, obovate-oblong (or ovate or oblong), ~ half as wide as long, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).


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image of Lespedeza repens, Smooth Trailing Lespedeza, Creeping Lespedeza, Creeping Bush-clover

JK Marlow    jkm0509c_35

September    Greenville County    SC

Field

image of Lespedeza repens, Smooth Trailing Lespedeza, Creeping Lespedeza, Creeping Bush-clover

JK Marlow    jkm0509d_01

September    Greenville County    SC

Field

image of Lespedeza repens, Smooth Trailing Lespedeza, Creeping Lespedeza, Creeping Bush-clover

JK Marlow    jkm0509d_0608

September    Greenville County    SC

Field

 

 

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lespedeza repens   FAMILY Fabaceae

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-27-004:
Lespedeza repens   FAMILY Fabaceae

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

811

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: woodlands and woodland borders, 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:
Spring/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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