Vascular Plants of North Carolina
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Account for Silvery Lespedeza - Lespedeza hirta var. curtissii   (Clewell) Isely
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Author(Clewell) Isely
DistributionPrimarily limited to the central and southern Coastal Plain, west to include the Sandhills. Records farther west might be suspect, despite specimens.

"Se. VA south to s. FL, west to Panhandle FL and se. AL, barely extending onto the Piedmont in NC, SC, and GA." (Weakley 2024).
AbundancePerhaps fairly common in the Coastal Plain, but very rare westward.
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B.A. SorrieRoadside, Thunder Road, Sept 2009. MoorePhoto_natural
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