Sunday, June 20, 2010

slender lespedeza

An example of Lespedeza virginica in the pea family, fabaceae:



Found on the back road to my parents house in Brandon Mississippi, this plant was host to a spider who was tending an egg sack and had turned the plant into a honeybee death trap as illustrated here.  In the photo above you can see the fibers laid by the nefarious arachnid.  As for L. virginica, it is a native of the United States and found as far north as Canadia.  Classified as a herb with the raceme flower arrangement, the plant shown here was about 4 and a half feet tall (~ 1.4 metres for thems what cares) and somewhat past is flowering prime.

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