BLUE AND PURPLE GROUP 



genus, calling the plant with sticky, jointed pods which cling 

 to the clothing, small, purplish, papilionaceous flowers, and 

 3-foliate leaves, a desmodium. 



Bush Clover 



Lespedeza. procumbens — Family, Pulse. Color, purple. Leaves, 

 of 3 leaflets, with awl-shaped stipules. Corolla, papilionaceous. 

 Flowers, often of 2 kinds; the larger, growing in panicles or 

 clusters, are not so fertile as the smaller, which are mingled with 

 the others along the stem and branches. The latter are usually 



bush clover {Lespedeza procumbens) 



without petals. Pods have 1 or 2 joints, with a single seed in the 

 upper; the lower generally seedless. Stents, 12 to 30 inches long, 

 trailing and prostrate. Softly hairy. August and September. 



Dry, sandy soil, near the coast, from New Hampshire to 

 Florida and westward to Texas. 



3*5 



