Bush Clover

Bush Clover
By Lou Paun
Bush Clover (Lespedeza) - Large flowering plants of the Pea order, few as yet tried in England. Mostly from China, Japan, Korea, and India.

Bush Clover, a semi-woody large perennial that has rosey-pink (rarely white) flowers in late Summer and early Autumn, is a good companion plant for blue and purple flowering perennials of the same season, such as Purple Dome Aster and Ironweed, ...

Round-Headed Bush Clover [English]: Despeleza capitata
Round-Headed Chinese Houses [English]: Collinsia corymbosa
Round-Headed Garlic [English]: Allium sphaerocephalon
Round-Headed Garlic [English]: Allium sphaerocephalum ...

Chinese bush clover; Chinese lespedeza; sericea lespedeza Lespedeza cuneata
Chinese catalpa Catalpa ovata
Chinese elm Ulmus parvifolia
Chinese lobelia Lobelia chinensis
Chinese mustard; brown mustard; mustard greens Brassica juncea ...

(ls´´pd´z) or bush clover, any plant of the genus Lespedeza, leguminous herbs or undershrubs of the family Leguminosae (pulse family); native to North America, Asia, and Australia.

Below these trees a valuable medicinal plant called the Asian ginseng grows, as well as the shrubs bush clover, hazel, Daurian buckthorn, hawthorn, and the thorny Daurian rose. The Mongolian oak, and the Daurian birch tend to grow in drier spaces.

ball clover, bristly clover, burdock clover, burr -clover, bush clover, cluster clover, clustered clover, flat headed clover, lappa clover
Family ...

Lespedeza thunbergii (Shrub Bush Clover)
Leucaena retusa (Littleleaf Lead Tree, Golden-ball Lead Tree)
Lotus bertholetii (Coral Gem, Parrot's Beak)
Lotus corniculatus (Bird's Foot Deervetch)
Lotus maculatus ...

See also: Clove, Clover, Lespedeza, Pink, Rose