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bush clovers and lespedezas
Lespedeza
Lespedeza is a genus of some 45 species (including nothospecies) of flowering plants in the pea family (Fabaceae), commonly known as bush clovers or (particularly East Asian species) Japanese clovers (hagi). The genus is native to warm temperate to subtropical regions of eastern North America, eastern and southern Asia and Australasia.
These shrubby plants or trailing vines belong to the "typical" legumes (Faboideae), with the peas and beans, though they are part of another tribe, the Desmodieae. Therein, they are treated as type genus of the smaller subtribe Lespedezinae, which unites the present genus and its presumed closest relatives, Campylotropis and Kummerowia.
53 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Chinese bushclover
speciesLespedeza cuneata
round-headed bush clover
speciesLespedeza capitata
slender bush clover
speciesLespedeza virginica
hairy lespedeza
speciesLespedeza hirta
shrub lespedeza
speciesLespedeza bicolor
trailing lespedeza
speciesLespedeza procumbens
violet bush clover
speciesLespedeza violacea
creeping lespedeza
speciesLespedeza repens
tall bush-clover
speciesLespedeza stuevei
violet bush clover
speciesLespedeza frutescens
Texas bush-clover
speciesLespedeza texana
Perennial Lespedeza
speciesLespedeza juncea
Dahurian lespedeza
speciesLespedeza daurica
Thunberg's lespedeza
speciesLespedeza thunbergii
Lespedeza floribunda
speciesLespedeza floribunda
Korean lespedeza
speciesLespedeza maximowiczii
Narrow-leaved Bush Clover
speciesLespedeza angustifolia
Lespedeza pilosa
speciesLespedeza pilosa
leafy lespedeza
speciesLespedeza cyrtobotrya
Lespedeza tomentosa
speciesLespedeza tomentosa
Lespedeza davidi
speciesLespedeza davidi
prairie lespedeza
speciesLespedeza leptostachya
Lespedeza virgata
speciesLespedeza virgata
Lespedeza chinensis
speciesLespedeza chinensis
long-leaved bushclover
hybridLespedeza × longifolia
Lespedeza caraganae
speciesLespedeza caraganae
Lespedeza maritima
speciesLespedeza maritima
Lespedeza × neglecta
hybridLespedeza × neglecta
Lespedeza lichiyuniae
speciesLespedeza lichiyuniae
Lespedeza buergeri
speciesLespedeza buergeri
Britton's bushclover
hybridLespedeza × brittonii
Lespedeza inschanica
speciesLespedeza inschanica
hybrid slender bushclover
hybridLespedeza × simulata
Nuttall's bushclover
hybridLespedeza × nuttallii
Lespedeza capitata × leptostachya
hybridLespedeza capitata × leptostachya
Lespedeza pseudomaximowiczii
speciesLespedeza pseudomaximowiczii
Mann's bush clover
hybridLespedeza × manniana
Lespedeza melanantha
speciesLespedeza melanantha
Lespedeza homoloba
speciesLespedeza homoloba
Lespedeza forrestii
speciesLespedeza forrestii
Lespedeza dunnii
speciesLespedeza dunnii
Lespedeza × acuticarpa
hybridLespedeza × acuticarpa
Lespedeza kagoshimensis
speciesLespedeza kagoshimensis
Lespedeza × robusta
hybridLespedeza × robusta
Lespedeza × oblongifolia
hybridLespedeza × oblongifolia
Lespedeza fordii
speciesLespedeza fordii
Lespedeza gerardiana
speciesLespedeza gerardiana
Lespedeza japonica
speciesLespedeza japonica
Lespedeza hengduanshanensis
speciesLespedeza hengduanshanensis
Lespedeza × macrovirgata
hybridLespedeza × macrovirgata
Lespedeza jiangxiensis
speciesLespedeza jiangxiensis
Lespedeza hisauchii
speciesLespedeza hisauchii
Lespedeza fasciculiflora
speciesLespedeza fasciculiflora
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 119139.