page_title: Lespedeza
section_title: Species
hierarchical_section_title: Lespedeza / Species
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo of Lespedeza capitata (Roundhead Lespedeza) in bloom.
context_page_description: Lespedeza is a genus of some 40 species of flowering plants in the pea family, commonly known as bush clovers or Japanese clovers. The genus is native to warm temperate to subtropical regions of eastern North America, eastern and southern Asia and Australasia.
  These shrubby plants or trailing vines belong to the "typical" legumes, with the peas and beans, though they are part of another tribe, the Desmodieae. Therein, they are treated as type genus of the smaller subtribe Lespedezinae, which unites the present genus and its presumed closest relatives, Campylotropis and Kummerowia.
context_section_description: The species and nothospecies recognized in Lespedeza include:
  Lespedeza angustifolia (Pursh) Elliott
  Lespedeza × angustifolioides T.B.Lee
  Lespedeza bicolor Turcz. (syn. L. bicolor var. japonica Nakai) – shrub lespedeza
  Lespedeza buergeri Miq.
  Lespedeza capitata Michx. (syn. L. frutescens Elliott, L. stuevei DC.)
  Lespedeza caraganae Bunge
  Lespedeza chinensis G.Don
  Lespedeza cuneata (Dumont-Cours.) G. Don (syn Lespedeza Sericea)
  Lespedeza cyrtobotrya Miq. – leafy lespedeza
  Lespedeza cyrtobuergeri Akiyama & H.Ohba
  Lespedeza davidii Franch.
  Lespedeza davurica (Laxm.) Schindl.
  Lespedeza × divaricata (Nakai) T.B.Lee
  Lespedeza dunnii Schindl.
  Lespedeza elegans Cambess.
  Lespedeza elliptica Benth.
  Lespedeza fasciculiflora Franch.
  Lespedeza floribunda Bunge (syn. L. bicolor Prain)
  Lespedeza fordii Schindl.
  Lespedeza forrestii Schindl.
  Lespedeza gerardiana Maxim.
  Lespedeza hirta (L.) Hornem.
  Lespedeza hirta ssp. curtissii Clewell (syn. L. hirta Elliott)
  Lespedeza homoloba Nakai
  Lespedeza inschanica (Maxim.) Schindl. – greenish juncea lespedeza
  Lespedeza intermedia (S.Watson) Britton (syn. L.  frutescens (L.) Britton, L. frutescens var. acutifructa Farw.)
  Lespedeza intermixta Makino (possibly a hybrid) – neonchul lespedeza
  Lespedeza japonica L.H.Bailey
  Lespedeza juncea (L.f.) Pers. – juncea lespedeza
  Lespedeza juncea var. sericea (Thunb.) Lace & Hauech (syn. L. cuneata (Dum.Cours.) G.Don)
  Lespedeza junghuhniana Bakh.f.
  Lespedeza kagoshimensis Hatus.
  Lespedeza leptostachya A.Gray
  Lespedeza maximowiczii R.C.Schneid. – Korean lespedeza
  Lespedeza melanantha Nakai – black-flower lespedeza
  Lespedeza mucronata Ricker
  Lespedeza × patentibicolor T.B.Lee
  Lespedeza pilosa (Thunb.) Siebold & Zucc. – pilose lespedeza
  Lespedeza potaninii Vassilcz.
  Lespedeza procumbens Michx.
  Lespedeza pubescens Hayata
  Lespedeza repens (L.) W.P.C.Barton
  Lespedeza × simulata Mack. & Bush
  Lespedeza speciosa Maxim.
  Lespedeza stuevei Nutt.
  Lespedeza texana Britton
  Lespedeza thunbergii (DC.) Nakai (syn. L. elliptica Maxim., L. formosa (Vogel) Koehne, L. formosa ssp. elliptica (Maxim.) Akiyama & H.Ohba)
  Lespedeza thunbergii var. var. thunbergii (DC.)Nakai (syn. L. patens Nakai, L. patens var. obtusifolia Nakai)
  Lespedeza thunbergii var. velutina (Nakai) H.Ohashi (syn. L. intermedia Nakai, L. intermedia var. angustifolia Nakai)
  Lespedeza tomentosa (Thunb.) Maxim. (syn. L. hirta Miq.) – woolly lespedeza
  Lespedeza violacea (L.) Pers.
  Lespedeza virgata (Murray) DC. – Wando lespedeza
  Lespedeza virginica (L.) Britton (syn. L. angustifolia Darl.)
  Lespedeza wilfordii Ricker
  The identity and specific validity of L. schindleri is unclear. In addition, there are some species formerly in this genus that are now placed elsewhere, typically in the Lespedezinae, for example, in genus Campylotropis. These include:
  Lespedeza speciosa Schindl. = Campylotropis speciosa (Schindl.) Schindl.
  Lespedeza striata (Thunb.) Hook. & Arn. = Kummerowia striata (Thunb.) Schindl.
  Lespedeza tomentosa Maxim. = Campylotropis pinetorum (Kurz) Schindl.
caption: Lespedeza capitata inflorescences and leaves
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