Taxon: Pueraria montana (Lour.) Merr.

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

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:

• Japanese arrowroot   (Source: Zander Ency [as P. lobata]) – English   [Pueraria montana var. lobata]
  
• 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]
  
• 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]
  
• Kudzubohne   (Source: Zander Ency [as P. lobata]) – German   [Pueraria montana var. lobata]
  
• pueraria   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian   [Pueraria montana var. lobata]
  
• kuzu   (Source: F Japan [as P. lobata]) – Japanese Rōmaji   [Pueraria montana var. lobata]
  
• chilg   (Source: Kulturpflanze 34:122 [as P. lobata]) – Transcribed Korean   [Pueraria montana var. lobata]
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control   (fide Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Environmental: 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)
  

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View phytochemical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Primorye
  China: China
  Eastern Asia: Japan; Korea; Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan
  Indo-China: Laos; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea; Philippines
• PACIFIC
  Southwestern Pacific: New Caledonia; Solomon Islands; Vanuatu

• AFRICA
  West Tropical Africa: Sierra Leone
  Southern Africa: South Africa - Mpumalanga
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Caucasus: Azerbaijan; Georgia
  Middle Asia: Tajikistan
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - New South Wales [n.e.], Queensland
• EUROPE
  East Europe: Ukraine
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  United States
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
  Southwestern Pacific: American Samoa; Fiji; Niue; Samoa; Tonga
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Hispaniola
  Mesoamerica: Panama

• also cultivated

References:

• Aubréville, A. et al., eds. 1960–. Flore du Cambodge du Laos et du Viet-Nam.
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6. 2:718.
• Kumar, S & P. V. Sane. 2003. Legumes of South Asia: a checklist.
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia.
• Li, H. L. et al., eds. 1975–1979. Flora of Taiwan.
• Lock, J. M. & C. S. Ford. 2004. Legumes of Malesia: a checklist.
• Lock, J. M. & J. Heald. 1994. Legumes of Indochina: a checklist.
• Maesen, L. J. G. van der & S. M. Almeida. 1988. Two corrections to the nomenclature in revision of Pueraria DC. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 85:233.
• 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. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 12(1):417.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• 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.
• Verdcourt, B. 1966. A proposal concerning Glycine L. Taxon 15:34–36.
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Pueraria montana.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Pueraria montana.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Pueraria montana.

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 80 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 17 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 25 accessions)
• Pueraria tonkinensis Gagnep. [= Pueraria montana var. montana]
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• Pueraria triloba (Houtt.) Makino [= Pueraria montana var. lobata]
  

Check other web resources for Pueraria montana (Lour.) Merr.:

• 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
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ILDIS: World Database of Legumes
• 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.

Images:

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

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• 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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