Desmodium yunnanense

Very different from the more often seen and smaller D. elegans, this will make a large deciduous shrub to 3m high with much larger, rounded, thickly silvery-hairy leaves and vibrant purple-pink pea flowers in dense clusters in late summer and autumn. This benefits from the backing of a warm sunny wall in many places and will come back strongly from the base if cut by cold, though at Bristol Botanic Garden, for example, it grows out in the open and thrives. From drier parts of the borderland of Sichuan and Yunnan, SW China.

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