Lespedeza

Accepted species 67 Documented here 17 Family Fabaceae

Accepted species 67 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Lespedeza cuneata (Dum.Cours.) G.Don 1,581 documented
Lespedeza capitata Michx. 887 documented
Lespedeza virginica (L.) Britton 488 documented
Lespedeza hirta (L.) Hornem. 379 documented
Lespedeza bicolor Turcz. 357 documented
Lespedeza procumbens Michx. 318 documented
Lespedeza repens (L.) W.P.C.Barton 239 documented
Lespedeza violacea (L.) Pers. 147 documented
Lespedeza frutescens (L.) Hornem. 104 documented
Lespedeza stuevei Nutt. 78 documented
Lespedeza texana Britton 74 documented
Lespedeza juncea (L.f.) Pers. 25 documented
Lespedeza leptostachya Engelm. ex A.Gray 24 documented
Lespedeza angustifolia (Pursh) Elliott 14 documented
Lespedeza daurica (Laxm.) Schindl. 13 documented
Lespedeza thunbergii (DC.) Nakai 5 documented
Lespedeza pilosa (Thunb.) Siebold & Zucc. 3 documented
Lespedeza buergeri Miq. 2 below the evidence gate
Lespedeza maximowiczii C.K.Schneid. 2 below the evidence gate
Lespedeza cyrtobotrya Miq. 1 below the evidence gate
Lespedeza virgata (Thunb.) DC. 1 below the evidence gate
Lespedeza × acuticarpa Mack. & Bush 0 below the evidence gate
Lespedeza × bicoloba S.Akiyama 0 below the evidence gate
Lespedeza × brittonii E.P.Bicknell 0 below the evidence gate
Lespedeza × cyrto-buergeri S.Akiyama & H.Ohba 0 below the evidence gate
Lespedeza × cyrtoloba S.Akiyama 0 below the evidence gate
Lespedeza × hiratukae Nakai 0 below the evidence gate
Lespedeza × intermixta Makino 0 below the evidence gate
Lespedeza × kagoshimensis Hatus. 0 below the evidence gate
Lespedeza × longifolia DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Lespedeza × macrovirgata Kitag. 0 below the evidence gate
Lespedeza × manniana Mack. & Bush 0 below the evidence gate
Lespedeza × miquelii S.Akiyama 0 below the evidence gate
Lespedeza × neglecta (Britton) Mack. & Bush 0 below the evidence gate
Lespedeza × nuttallii Darl. 0 below the evidence gate
Lespedeza × oblongifolia (Britton) W.Stone 0 below the evidence gate
Lespedeza × robusta Nakai 0 below the evidence gate
Lespedeza × simulata Mack. & Bush 0 below the evidence gate
Lespedeza cambodianum V.D.Nguyen 0 below the evidence gate
Lespedeza caraganae Bunge 0 below the evidence gate
Lespedeza chinensis G.Don 0 below the evidence gate
Lespedeza danxiaensis Q.Fan, W.Y.Zhao & K.W.Jiang 0 below the evidence gate
Lespedeza davidii Franch. 0 below the evidence gate
Lespedeza dunnii Schindl. 0 below the evidence gate
Lespedeza elegans Cambess. 0 below the evidence gate
Lespedeza fasciculiflora Franch. 0 below the evidence gate
Lespedeza floribunda Bunge 0 below the evidence gate
Lespedeza fordii Schindl. 0 below the evidence gate
Lespedeza forrestii Schindl. 0 below the evidence gate
Lespedeza gerardiana Wall. ex Maxim. 0 below the evidence gate
Lespedeza hengduanshanensis (C.J.Chen) Bo Xu, X.F.Gao & Li Bing Zhang 0 below the evidence gate
Lespedeza hisauchii T.Nemoto & H.Ohashi 0 below the evidence gate
Lespedeza hispida (Franch.) T.Nemoto & H.Ohashi 0 below the evidence gate
Lespedeza homoloba Nakai 0 below the evidence gate
Lespedeza inschanica (Maxim.) Schindl. 0 below the evidence gate
Lespedeza japonica L.H.Bailey 0 below the evidence gate
Lespedeza jianghuensis Song Huang, Jia X.Li & B.Pan bis 0 below the evidence gate
Lespedeza jiangxiensis Bo Xu, X.F.Gao & Li Bing Zhang 0 below the evidence gate
Lespedeza lichiyuniae T.Nemoto, H.Ohashi & T.Itoh 0 below the evidence gate
Lespedeza maritima Nakai 0 below the evidence gate
Lespedeza maruyamana Murata 0 below the evidence gate
Lespedeza melanantha Nakai 0 below the evidence gate
Lespedeza pseudomaximowiczii D.P.Jin, Bo Xu & B.H.Choi 0 below the evidence gate
Lespedeza sessilifolia Gamble 0 below the evidence gate
Lespedeza taiwaniana S.S.Ying 0 below the evidence gate
Lespedeza tomentosa (Thunb.) Siebold ex Maxim. 0 below the evidence gate
Lespedeza tricolor (Nakai) D.P.Jin, J.W.Park & B.H.Choi 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.