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Kudzu [Pueraria lobata (Willd.) Ohwi]1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Larry W. Mitich
Larry W. Mitich*
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Department of Vegetable Crops, University of California, Davis, CA 95616
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In Georgia, the legend says

That you must close your window

At night to keep it out of the house.

(Poems 1957–1967 by James Dickey)

Indigenous to tropical and East Asia, 20 species comprise the genus Pueraria in the Leguminosae (pea or bean family) (Mabberley 1989). The generic name commemorates Swiss botanist Marc Nicolas Puerari (1766–1845). The specific epithet lobata, from the Greek lobos, refers to kudzu's three-lobed leaves (Brown 1956).

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Intriguing World of Weeds
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Weed Technology , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , March 2000, pp. 231 - 235
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Copyright © Weed Science Society of America 

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