Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Fabales > Fabaceae > Lespedeza > Lespedeza bicolorLespedeza bicolor (shrubby lespedeza; shrub lespedeza; Bush Clover; Bicolor Lespedeza)Synonyms: Desmodium penduliflorum (heterotypic); Lespedeza bicolor f. acutifolia; Lespedeza bicolor f. alba; Lespedeza bicolor f. albiflora (heterotypic); Lespedeza bicolor f. grandifolia; Lespedeza bicolor f. nakaiana; Lespedeza bicolor f. niveoflora; Lespedeza bicolor f. parvifolia; Lespedeza bicolor f. pendula; Lespedeza bicolor f. rosea; Lespedeza bicolor f. sericea; Lespedeza bicolor japonica; Lespedeza bicolor var. alba; Lespedeza bicolor var. bicolor; Lespedeza bicolor var. intermedia; Lespedeza bicolor var. japonica; Lespedeza bicolor var. nana; Lespedeza bicolor var. sericea; Lespedeza ionocalyx; Lespedeza melanantha f. rosea; Lespedeza penduliflora; Lespedeza penduliflora cathayana; Lespedeza penduliflora var. cathayana; Lespedeza setiloba; Lespedeza spicata; Lespedeza tobae; Lespedeza veitchii Language: Estonian; French; German; Lithuanian; Polish; Russian Lespedeza bicolor is a species of flowering plant in the legume family known by the common names shrubby bushclover, shrub lespedeza, and bicolor lespedeza. It is native to Asia and it is widely grown as an ornamental plant. In some regions, such as the southeastern United States, it grows in the wild as an introduced and invasive species. It is still planted as an ornamental. Cultivars include "Little Buddy" and "Yakushima". |
| Edible [1] | May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details. | | Flower Type [1] | Hermaphrodite | | Leaf Type [1] | Deciduous | | Pollinators [1] | Insects, Lepidoptera | | Structure [1] | Shrub | | Usage [1] | The seed oil is used as a lubricant;
The branchletsare used for making baskets;
Because this species tolerates arid soils, it is grown as a windbreak, and for sand stabilization, and soil conservation; |  | | Height [1] | 9.84 feet (3 m) |
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Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area National Recreation Area |
V |
120283 |
Kentucky, Tennessee, United States |
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Bolshekhekhtsirsky Zapovednik |
Ia |
112282 |
Khabarovsk, Russia |
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Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge |
VI |
16363 |
Delaware, United States |
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Carolinian-South Atlantic Biosphere Reserve |
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310228 |
North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, United States |
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Changbai Mountain Nature Reserve |
V |
619089 |
Jilin, China |
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Desecheo National Wildlife Refuge |
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Puerto Rico, United States |
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Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge |
VI |
66133 |
Arkansas, United States |
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Great Smoky Mountains National Park |
II |
515454 |
North Carolina, Tennessee, United States |
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Hobcaw Barony (North Inlet) National Estuarine Research Reserve |
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7585 |
South Carolina, United States |
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Kedrovaya Pad Zapovednik |
Ia |
44224 |
Primorsky Krai , Russia |
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Obed Wild and Scenic River National River and Wild and Scenic Riverway |
V |
5268 |
Tennessee, United States |
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Oconee National Forest Botanical Reserve |
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306 |
Georgia, United States |
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Sikhote-Alinskiy Biosphere Reserve |
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978001 |
Russia |
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Southern Appalachian Biosphere Reserve |
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37548505 |
North Carolina, Tennessee, United States |
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Tennessee River Gorge |
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Tennessee, United States |
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Ussuriysky Zapovednik |
Ia |
99910 |
Primorsky Krai , Russia |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License♦ 2Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009 ♦ 3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics. ♦ 4Kato, M., T. Makutani, T. Inoue, and T. Itino. 1990. Insect-flower relationship in the primary beech forest of Ashu, Kyoto: an overview of the flowering phenology and seasonal pattern of insect visits. Contr. Biol. Lab. Kyoto Univ. 27:309-375. |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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