PULSE FAMILY. Leguminosse. 



hairy. 2-6 feet high. Common on the borders of 

 copses and on river banks, from Me., south to S. Car., 

 and west to Mo. and Neb. 



Trailing Bush An interesting little plant with a trailing 

 Clover habit, its perpendicular branches rising 



Lespedeza f rom a stout horizontal stem. The little 



prwMfttou ^jeavea are c i OV erlike. The whole plant 

 ta"or magenta- woolly hairy. The tiny pealike blossoms 

 pink magenta-pink or a light purple-magenta. 



August- 12-25 inches long. Common in dry soil 



September everywhere. 



Lespedeza ^ n u P r ighk an d tall species with small 



violacea elliptical leaflets distinctly stalked. Stem 



Purple sparingly hairy and much branched. The 



August- small flowers purple or violet-purple. 1-3 



ep e feet high. Common in dry soil, and on 



the borders of copses everywhere. 



Lespedeza An erect species with smooth, dark 



reticulata green, cloverlike leaves, crowding a 



Purple rather straight, generally smooth stem, 



which is terminated by the small, crowded, purple 

 flower-cluster ; smaller clusters also spring from the 

 junction of stem with leaf-stalk. The Lespedezas, 

 especially this one, are apt to exhibit two kinds of 

 flowers ; those with showy petals, which are sterile, and 

 those petalless and minute, which are abundantly fer- 

 tile. According to Prof. Robertson , the chief visitors of 

 this flower are the bumblebee Bombus americanorum, 

 the leaf-cutting bee (Megachile), and the ground bee 

 (Halictus ; notably H. ligatus). Among the butterflies, 

 Colias philodice and Pamphila cernes are occasional 

 visitors. 1-3 feet high. Mass. and Mich., south. 

 Lespedeza This species has yellow-white flowers 



polystachya purple-spotted , which grow in small dense, 

 Yellow-white, bristly, oblong spikes. The stem is silky 

 spotted hairy, and the round-ovate leaflets are 



slightly separated by the conspicuous stalk of the middle 

 one. 2-4 feet high. Common everywhere on dry 

 hillsides. 



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