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Lespedeza



Lespedeza

Lespedeza bicolor
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Tribe: Desmodieae
Genus: Lespedeza
Species

Lespedeza angustifolia
Lespedeza bicolor
Lespedeza buergeri
Lespedeza capitata
Lespedeza chinensis
Lespedeza cuneata
Lespedeza cyrtobotrya
Lespedeza cyrtobuergeri
Lespedeza davidii
Lespedeza davurica
Lespedeza hirta
Lespedeza homoloba
Lespedeza intermedia
Lespedeza intermixta
Lespedeza japonica
Lespedeza juncea
Lespedeza kagoshimensis
Lespedeza leptostachya
Lespedeza maximowiczii
Lespedeza melanantha
Lespedeza pilosa
Lespedeza procumbens
Lespedeza repens
Lespedeza stuevei
Lespedeza texana
Lespedeza thunbergii
Lespedeza tomentosa
Lespedeza violacea
Lespedeza virgata
Lespedeza virginica

Ref: ILDIS Version 6.05

Lespedeza is a genus of about 30 species of flowering plants in the pea family Fabaceae, commonly known as Bush clover or Japanese clover. The genus is native to warm temperate to subtropical regions of eastern North America, eastern and southern Asia and Australasia.

Cultivation and uses

Some species are grown as garden or ornamental plants, and/or are used as a forage crops, notably in the southern United States, and as a means of soil enrichment and for prevention of erosion. Some are invasive species in some areas.

Lespedeza bicolor var. japonica has been shown to contain l-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine (lespedamin).[1]

References

  1. ^ www.plantphysiol.org
 
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