Lespedeza juncea

Erect or decumbent perennial subshrub, 60–120 cm tall; stems appressed silky-hairy. Leaflets linear-cuneate to obovate, 7–25 mm long, 2–5 mm wide, upper surface glabrous, lower surface appressed-hairy, apices truncate to obtuse, mucronate; stipules 1–6 mm long. Flowers solitary or 2–7 in axillary clusters; bracts to c. 1 mm long; bracteoles linear, to c. 2 mm long. Calyx 3–5 mm long, appressed-hairy; teeth longer than tube; corolla 6–7 mm long, creamy-yellow or pink-purple; standard often with a darker purple patch; keel curved. Pod 3–4 mm long, sparsely hairy, sessile; seed c. 2.5 mm long, brown.  Flowers summer–autumn.