Taxon: Pueraria montana (Lour.) Merr. var. lobata (Willd.) Maesen & S. M. Almeida ex Sanjappa & Predeep

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:

IL(as Pueraria lobata)*, IN(as Pueraria lobata)*, KS(as Pueraria lobata)*°, MO(as Pueraria lobata)*, MS*, OR(as Pueraria lobata)*, PA(as Pueraria lobata)*, TX*, WA*, WV(as Pueraria thunbergiana)*.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Link to species profile at

See other conspecific taxa:

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

Common names:

• Japanese arrowroot   (Source: Zander Ency [as P. lobata]) – English
  
• kudsu   (Source: Hortus 3 [as P. lobata]) – English
  
• kudzu   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• kudzuranker   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 [as P. lobata]) – Afrikaans
  
• Kudzubohne   (Source: Zander Ency [as P. lobata]) – German
  
• pueraria   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  
• kuzu   (Source: F Japan [as P. lobata]) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• chilg   (Source: Kulturpflanze 34:122 [as P. lobata]) – Transcribed Korean
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control   (fide Maesen 1985)
  
• Human food: starch   (fide Ency CNatIn)
  
• Human food: vegetable   (fide Ency CNatIn)
  
• Animal food: fodder   (fide Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2; Pl Res SEAs 12(1):417. 1999; CRC MedHerbs ed2; Ill Chin Mat Med, as P. pseudohirsuta)
  
• Weed   (fide Plant Invasion; Weeds SAfr 2001, as P. lobata)
  

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Primorye
  China: China
  Eastern Asia: Japan; Korea; Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indo-China: 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
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - New South Wales [n.e.], Queensland
• EUROPE
  East Europe: Ukraine
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  United States
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
  South-Central Pacific: French Polynesia
  Southwestern Pacific: American Samoa; Fiji; Niue; Samoa; Tonga
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Hispaniola
  Mesoamerica: Panama

References:

• Conant, P. et al. 1997. Appendix. Selected plant species interfering with resource management goals in North American natural areas. In: Luken, J. O. & J. W. Thieret, eds., Assessment and management of plant invasions. 255–267.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Henderson, L. 2001. Alien weeds and invasive plants: a complete guide to declared weeds and invaders in South Africa. Plant Protection Research Institute, Handbook 12. [= P. lobata (Willd.) Ohwi].
• Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry. Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource).
• International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
• Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993–. Flora of Japan. [= P. lobata].
• Kumar, S & P. V. Sane. 2003. Legumes of South Asia: a checklist.
• Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster. 1996. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2. [= P. lobata (Willd.) Ohwi].
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. [= P. lobata].
• Lock, J. M. & C. S. Ford. 2004. Legumes of Malesia: a checklist.
• Maesen, L. J. G. van der. 1994. Pueraria, the kudzu and its relatives: an update of the taxonomy. 67. [in M. Sørensen, Proc. 1st Int. Symp. Tuberous Legumes].
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. [= P. lobata (Willd.) Ohwi].
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• 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.
• USDA National Agricultural Library. National Invasive Species Information Center (on-line resource).
• Wagner, W. L. et al. Flora of the Hawaiian Islands (on-line resource).
• Ward, D. B. 1998. Pueraria montana: the correct scientific name of the kudzu. Castanea 63:76–77.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

Synonyms:

• (=) Dolichos hirsutus Thunb.
  
• (≡) Dolichos lobatus Willd. (basionym)
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Neustanthus chinensis Benth.
  
• (=) Pachyrhizus thunbergianus Siebold & Zucc.
  
• (=) Pueraria hirsuta (Thunb.) Matsum.
  
• (≡) Pueraria lobata (Willd.) Ohwi
  (previously associated with 17 accessions)
• (=) Pueraria lobata var. chinensis (Benth.) Ohwi
  
• (=) "Pueraria pseudohirsuta Tang & F. T. Wang, nom. nud."
  
• (=) Pueraria thunbergiana (Siebold & Zucc.) Benth.
  (previously associated with 25 accessions)
• (=) Pueraria triloba (Houtt.) Makino
  

Check other web resources for Pueraria montana (Lour.) Merr. var. lobata (Willd.) Maesen & S. M. Almeida ex Sanjappa & Predeep:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• 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

Images or nodulation data:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• GRIN nodulation data

More:

• 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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