Taxon: Lespedeza hirta (L.) Hornem.

• the 2 historical accession(s) associated with this name.
• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

Common names:

• hairy bush-clover   (Source: Leg Tex ) – English
  
• hairy lespedeza   (Source: F GPlains ) – English
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Eastern Canada: Canada - Ontario [s.]
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Maine [s.], Massachusetts, Michigan [s.], New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois [n. & s.], Kansas [s.e. (Cherokee Co.)], Missouri [s.], Oklahoma
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas

References:

• Chester, E. W. et al. 1993–1997. Atlas of Tennessee vascular plants.
• Clewell, A. F. 1966. Native North American species of Lespedeza (Leguminosae). Rhodora 68:376.
• Deam, C. C. 1940. Flora of Indiana.
• Isely, D. 1955. The Leguminosae of the north-central United States 2. Hedysareae. Iowa State Coll. J. Sci. 30:92.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Magee, D. W. & H. E. Ahles. 1999. Flora of the Northeast. A manual of the vascular flora of New England and adjacent New York.
• McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1986. Flora of the Great Plains.
• Mohlenbrock, R. H. 1975. Guide to the vascular flora of Illinois.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas.
• Rhoads, A. F. & W. M. Klein, Jr. 1993. The vascular flora of Pennsylvannia. Annotated checklist and atlas.
• Steyermark, J. A. 1977. Flora of Missouri.
• Turner, B. L. 1959. The legumes of Texas.
• Voss, E. 1972–. Michigan flora.
• Wilbur, R. L. 1963. Leguminous plants of North Carolina.
• Wunderlin, R. P. 1998. Guide to the vascular plants of Florida.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Lespedeza hirta.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Lespedeza hirta.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Lespedeza hirta.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Hedysarum hirtum L. (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Lespedeza hirta (L.) Hornem.:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ILDIS: World Database of Legumes
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images or nodulation data:

• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• GRIN nodulation data

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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