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Pueraria montana

kudzu

Pueraria montana
Distribution
from USDA
Asia; intro­duced also widely elsewhere [Introduced in North America]
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Discussion

Varieties 3 (1 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Pueraria
Subordinate taxa
P. montana var. lobata
Synonyms Dolichos montanus, P. lobata var. montana
Name authority (Loureiro) Merrill: Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., n. s. 24(2): 210. (1935)
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