. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian . 39. LESPEDEZA Rlichx, Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 70. 1803. Herbs, often somewhat woody, with pinnately 3-foliolate leaves, small stipules, and small purple or whitish flowers in axillary clusters, heads or panicles. Flowers often of 2 kinds intermixed, the one petaliferous and mainly sterile, the other minute, apetalous, abundantly fertile. Calyx-lobes nearly equal, those of petalifero
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian . 39. LESPEDEZA Rlichx, Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 70. 1803. Herbs, often somewhat woody, with pinnately 3-foliolate leaves, small stipules, and small purple or whitish flowers in axillary clusters, heads or panicles. Flowers often of 2 kinds intermixed, the one petaliferous and mainly sterile, the other minute, apetalous, abundantly fertile. Calyx-lobes nearly equal, those of petaliferous flowers often longer than those of apetalous ones. Standard in the petaliferous flowers obovate or oblong, clawed; wings oblong; keel incurved. Stamens more or less diadelphous (9 and i) ; anthers all alike. Ovary sessile or stipitate, l-ovuled. Pods ovate, oblong, oval or suborbicular, flat, indehis- cent, reticulated, composed of a single joint, or with a second stalk-like joint at the base, those of petaliferous flowers often sharper-pointed than those of apetalous ones. [Named for Lespedez, governor of Florida, patron of Michaux.] A genus of about 40 species, natives of eastern North America. Asia and .Australia. Type species : Lespedeaa sessiliflora Michx. The genus is known as bush-clover. Perennial native species : stipules subulate ; calyx-lohes narrow. Corolla purple or purplish ; plants bearing both petaliferous and apetalous flowers. Stems prostrate or trailing. Glabrous or somewhat appressed-pubescent. Downy-pubescent or tomentose. Stems erect or ascending. Peduncles manifest, mostly longer than the leaves. Bushy-branched; petaliferous flowers paniculate. Stems simple or little-branched ; flowers racemose or subspi Calyx of petaliferous flowers two-thirds as long as the p 1. 2. L. procumbens. L. violacca. Calyx of petaliferous Mowers Stem tomentose ; leaves to Stem and leaves glabrate c Leaflets oval to suborbi Leaflets oblong. -half ; Dug I the pod or
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