Plants of USA and Canada

Scientific or common name:

Pueraria montana (Lour.) Merr.


FABACEAE Family selection - Pea family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

Taxon Page:

Name: Pueraria montana (Lour.) Merr. Taxon selection
Nomencl. ref.: Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. ser. 2, 24(2): 10, 210. 1935
Rank: species

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Common names

US name U.S. name: Kudzu
en English name: Japanese arrowroot
English name: kudsu
Italian name: pueraria
German name: Kudzubohne

Grown habit: Vine
Duration: Perennial
 

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Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Pueraria montana (Lour.) Merr. var. lobata (Willd.) Maesen & S. Almeida
2) Pueraria montana (Lour.) Merr. var. montana



TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Rosidae
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Genus: Pueraria
Species:


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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AL, AR, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MO, MS, NC, NE, NJ, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, VA, WA, WV)

Distributional map for Pueraria montana (Lour.) Merr.
Map for Pueraria montana (Lour.) Merr.
(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA



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More species:
1) Pueraria montana (Lour.) Merr. var. lobata (Willd.) Maesen & S. Almeida [2464]
2) Pueraria montana (Lour.) Merr. var. montana [235]
3) Pueraria phaseoloides (Roxb.) Benth. [482]
4) Pueraria tonkinensis Gagnep. [169]
5) Pulicaria arabica (L.) Cass. [261]
6) Pulicaria paludosa Link [235]
7) Pulsatilla ludoviciana A. Heller, nom. illeg. [187]
8) Punctelia darrowi (J.W. Thomson) Krog [231]
9) Purpusia arizonica Eastw. ex J.T. Howell [162]
10) Pycnanthemum clinopodioides Torr. & A. Gray [269]

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