Shrub lespedeza
Lespedeza bicolor Turcz.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- 2.3 m
- wide
- 2.3 m
Fabaceae
Also called Shrubby bushclover, Bicolor lespedeza
Formerly Desmodium penduliflorum, Lespedeza ionocalyx, Lespedeza patentibicolor, Lespedeza penduliflora, and 4 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Subshrub or shrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- SE. Siberia to JapanKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 1.5 m to 3.0 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 1.5 m to 3.0 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- Pink, purpleRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -34.4 °C (USDA zone 4a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- root
- LESBIC
- Korean
- 싸리
- Japanese
- ヤマハギ, 山萩
- Czech
- lespedézie dvoubarvá
- Russian
- Леспедеца двуцветная
- Chinese (China)
- 胡枝子, 二色胡枝子
- Chinese
- 山胡枝子, 日本胡枝子, 胡枝子
- Danish
- Tofarvet kløverbusk
- French
- lespédèze bicolore
- Finnish
- mantsurianpensasapila
- Slovak
- lespedéza dvojfarebná
- Polish
- Lespedeza dwubarwna
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Lespedeza bicolor (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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