genus lespedeza

1. Genus of shrubs or herbs of tropical Asia and Australia and the eastern United States (synset 112563154)
   is a type of: rosid dicot genus - a genus of dicotyledonous plants
   member holonym:

   • bush clover, lespedeza - shrubby or herbaceous plants widely used for forage, soil improvement, and especially hay in southern United States
   • bicolor lespediza, ezo-yama-hagi, lespedeza bicolor - Asian shrub having conspicuous racemose rose-purple flowers widely used as an ornamental and in erosion control and as a source of feed for wild birds
   • jap clover, japan clover, japanese clover, lespedeza striata - an annual of tropical Asia naturalized in United States
   • korean lespedeza, lespedeza stipulacea - annual native to Korea but widely cultivated for forage and hay in hot dry regions
   • lespedeza cuneata, lespedeza sericea, sericea lespedeza - perennial widely planted as for forage and as hay crop especially on poor land
   belongs to: papilionoideae, subfamily papilionoideae - alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae

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