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violet bush clover
Lespedeza frutescens
Lespedeza frutescens, commonly known as shrubby lespedeza, is a species of herbaceous plant in the legume family.
It is native to eastern North America, where it is found on cliffs, balds, or ledges, forests, ridges or ledges, talus and rocky slopes, woodlands.
From the article Lespedeza frutescens on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
L. frutescens is a perennial shrub that reaches between 2 and 10 decimeters (approximately 0.7 to 3.3 feet) in height. Leaves are oblong to oblong-elliptic in shape and reach a length between 1.5 and 4 centimeters.
== References ==
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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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 164569.