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Lespedeza leptostachya
Also called Prairie Bush Clover
Prairie lespedeza is a rare, federally threatened perennial legume of the North American tallgrass prairie, grown mainly for conservation and native plantings. It needs dry, well-drained, often gravelly or sandy soil and full sun, and takes 6 to 9 years to flower.
Lespedeza leptostachya is a rare species of flowering plant in the legume family known by the common names prairie lespedeza and prairie bush-clover. It occurs in the Upper Midwest region of the United States. The flowers are creamy-white to purplish and arranged into a narrow terminal spikes.
It is endemic to the Upper Midwest, where it occurs in the Upper Mississippi Valley in the states of Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Illinois. Most occurrences are in northern Iowa and southern Minnesota, and it is rare across its known range. It is federally listed as a threatened species in the US.
Narrowleaf lespedeza · Shrub lespedeza · Roundhead lespedeza · Sericea lespedeza · Lespedeza · Hairy lespedeza · Pilose Lespedeza · Trailing lespedeza · Creeping lespedeza · Tall lespedeza · Thunberg's lespedeza · Violet lespedeza
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lespedeza leptostachya by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
