Lespedeza japonica

Plant Characteristics

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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Lespedeza japonica in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Lespedeza japonica, Bailey (L. Sieboldii var. albiflbra, Schneid. Desmodium japonicum, Hort., not Miq.). Very like L. Sieboldii and perhaps a form of it, but blooms a week or two later, has very numerous pure-white flowers, much lighter colored herbage, usually nearly glabrous leaves and sts., the Lfts. broader and less pointed.—Hardy as the last, and seems to seed more freely in the N. Other Japanese and Chinese lespedezas may be expected to appear in the trade. See Franchet, R. II. 1890, pp. 225-227, for an account of W. China ornamental species, with picture of L. Delavayi, Franch., which grows 3-0 ft. high, with elliptic obtuse Lfts., and deep violet to purplish black flowers in a terminal panicle.— L. cyrtobotrya, Miq. Shrub, to G ft. or more, glabrous or somewhat pubescent, with the habit of L. bicolor but less handsome: lvs. of the shoots long-stalked, oval to oval-oblong, rounded or slightly emarginate at the apex. 1-1/2 in. long, the middle 1ft. long- stalked: leaves of the lateral flowering branchlets short-stalked, crowded and much smaller; Lfts. all short-stalked, oval, emarginate, 1/3 - 3/4 in. long: flowers purple, 1/3 in. long, in dense axillary clusters or racemes not exceeding 1/2 in. length. Japan.—L. macrocarpa, Bunge (Campylobotrys macrocarpa, Rehd. Campylobotrys chinensis, Bunge). Shrub, to 6 ft.: leaves long-stalked; lfts. oval to oblong, emarginate, glabrous above, silky-villous below, 3/4 - 1 1/2 in. long, the middle one long-stalked: flowers purple, 1/3 in. long, slender-stalked in axillary many-fld. stalked racemes to 3 in. long: pods glabrous, more than 1/2 in. long. N. and Cent. China.—L. sericea, Mia. Suffruticose, to 3 ft. high: leaves crowded, rather short-stalked; Lfts. short-stalked, linear-oblong to linear, rounded at the apex, 1/3 - 3/4 in. long, strigose beneath, minutely so above: flowers white, nearly sessile, 1/4 in. long, in axillary dense clusters or in dense and abort leafy racemes to 1 in. long: pod little over 1 line long. China, Japan. CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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