Pueraria lobata is
a perennial herb seen everywhere in fields and mountains. The whole
is with coarse yellow-brown hairs, and stem bases are ligneous.
Leaves comprise three leaflets, with thick white coats on the bottom
surfaces; the leaflets are 10-15cm long, and many cleft shallowly in
2-3. Flowers, many, come in racemes, red-purple, and 1.8-2cm long.
Legumes are 5-10cm long, with dense brown bristles. Bloom time:
July-September. |