| Name | Lespedeza violacea (Linnaeus) Persoon |
| Authorship | (Linnaeus) Persoon |
| Rank | Species |
| NomenclaturalStatus | NomLeg |
| Placed in | Lespedeza Michaux |
| Contains | Lespedeza violacea var. angustifolia Torrey & A. Gray Lespedeza violacea f. divergens (Willdenow) Torrey & A. Gray |
| GUID | urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30033602-2 |
| Holdings | 366 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Lespedeza violacea (Linnaeus) Persoon |
| Identification made in | [no date] (319), 1961 (12), 1966 (6), 1997 (2), 2006 (1), 2012 (25), 2017 (1) |