Taxon: Pueraria montana (Lour.) Merr.

A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

CT*, FL*, MA*.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

See also subordinate taxa:

• Pueraria montana var. lobata (4 accessions)
• Pueraria montana var. montana (11 accessions)
• Pueraria montana var. thomsonii (no accessions)

Common names:

• kudsu   (Source: Hortus 3 [as P. lobata]) – English   [Pueraria montana var. lobata]
  
• kudzu   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – English
  
• kudzu   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English   [Pueraria montana var. lobata]
  
• Taiwan kudzu   (Source: Pl Names ) – English   [Pueraria montana var. montana]
  
• wild kudzu   (Source: Pl Names ) – English   [Pueraria montana var. montana]
  
• kudzuranker   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 [as P. lobata]) – Afrikaans   [Pueraria montana var. lobata]
  
• fen ge   (Source: Ency CNatIn [as P. thomsonii]) – Transcribed Chinese   [Pueraria montana var. thomsonii]
  
• fen ke   (Source: Herbs Commerce [as P. montana var. chinensis]) – Transcribed Chinese   [Pueraria montana var. thomsonii]
  
• gan ge   (Source: Ency CNatIn [as P. thomsonii]) – Transcribed Chinese   [Pueraria montana var. thomsonii]
  
• gan ge teng   (Source: Pl Names ) – Transcribed Chinese   [Pueraria montana var. thomsonii]
  
• mealy kudzu   (Source: Herbs Commerce [as P. montana var. chinensis]) – Transcribed Chinese   [Pueraria montana var. thomsonii]
  
• shan ge teng   (Source: Pl Names ) – Transcribed Chinese   [Pueraria montana var. montana]
  
• ye ge   (Source: Pl Names ) – Transcribed Chinese   [Pueraria montana var. lobata]
  
• kuzu   (Source: F Japan [as P. lobata]) – Japanese Rōmaji   [Pueraria montana var. lobata]
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control; ornamental   (fide Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Pl Res SEAs 12(1):417. 1999)
  
• Weed   (fide State Noxweed Seed, as P. lobata; Invasive Pl Spec)
  

More:

View phytochemical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

      Native: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China; Hong Kong
  Eastern Asia: Japan; Korea; Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indo-China: Laos; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea; Philippines
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - Queensland [n.]
• PACIFIC
  Southwestern Pacific: Fiji; New Caledonia; Solomon Islands; Tonga; Vanuatu

      Naturalized:

• naturalized in Ukraine, Caucasus, c. Asia, s. Africa, United States (including Hawaii), Hispaniola, & Panama

References:

• Aubréville, A. et al., eds. 1960–. Flore du Cambodge du Laos et du Viet-Nam. (F CambLVN)
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6. (Mansf Ency) 2:718.
• L. J. G. van der Maesen & S. Almeida. 1988. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 85:233.
• Li, H. L. et al., eds. 1975–1979. Flora of Taiwan. (F Taiwan)
• Maesen, L. J. G. van der. 1985. Revision of the genus Pueraria DC. with some notes on Teyleria Backer (Leguminosae). Agric. Univ. Wageningen Pap. 85–1:53. [= P. lobata var. montana (Lour.) Maesen].
• Maesen, L. J. G. van der. 1994. Pueraria, the kudzu and its relatives: an update of the taxonomy. 65. [in M. Sørensen, Proc. 1st Int. Symp. Tuberous Legumes].
• Padua, L. S. de et al., eds. 1999. Medicinal and poisonous plants 1. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) 12(1):417.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A. 1999. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act. (State Noxweed Seed)
• Verdcourt, B. 1966. Taxon 15:34–6.
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds. (Invasive Pl Spec)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Pueraria montana.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Pueraria montana. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• Dolichos hirsutus Thunb. [= Pueraria montana var. lobata]
  
• Dolichos lobatus Willd. [≡ Pueraria montana var. lobata]
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• Dolichos montanus Lour. [≡ Pueraria montana var. montana]
  
• Glycine javanica L. [= Pueraria montana var. montana]
  (previously associated with 73 accessions)
• Neustanthus chinensis Benth. [= Pueraria montana var. lobata]
  
• Pachyrhizus thunbergianus Siebold & Zucc. [= Pueraria montana var. lobata]
  
• Pueraria hirsuta (Thunb.) Matsum. [= Pueraria montana var. lobata]
  
• Pueraria lobata (Willd.) Ohwi [≡ Pueraria montana var. lobata]
  (previously associated with 16 accessions)
• Pueraria lobata var. chinensis (Benth.) Ohwi [= Pueraria montana var. lobata]
  
• Pueraria lobata var. montana (Lour.) Maesen [≡ Pueraria montana var. montana]
  (previously associated with 10 accessions)
• Pueraria lobata var. thomsonii (Benth.) Maesen [≡ Pueraria montana var. thomsonii]
  
• Pueraria montana var. chinensis auct. [= Pueraria montana var. thomsonii]
  
• Pueraria omeiensis F. T. Wang & Tang, nom. nud. [= Pueraria montana var. montana]
  
• Pueraria pseudohirsuta Tang & F. T. Wang, nom. nud. [= Pueraria montana var. lobata]
  
• Pueraria thomsonii Benth. [≡ Pueraria montana var. thomsonii]
  
• Pueraria thunbergiana (Siebold & Zucc.) Benth. [= Pueraria montana var. lobata]
  (previously associated with 15 accessions)
• Pueraria tonkinensis Gagnep. [= Pueraria montana var. montana]
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• Pueraria triloba (Houtt.) Makino [= Pueraria montana var. lobata]
  

Check other databases for Pueraria montana (Lour.) Merr.:

• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium Map Display Interface
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ILDIS: International Legume Database & Information Service
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• 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.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• Forestry Images: Images of invasive weeds from www.forestryimages.org

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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Cite as:
USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?30355 (09 February 2010)

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