萩といえば、万葉集にも登場するぐらい、古くから日本でおなじみの秋の花。
とはいえ、カメラ始めるまで、ちっとも興味がなかった私。
もっと、教養を身につけねば...
万葉集か...受験のときに古文で覚えた位しか接していないし...
この機会に、日本の文化に触れてみるのもいいか、と思いつつ
きっとそのまま日々が過ぎていくのだろう。
Lespedeza
Lespedeza is a genus of some 40 species (including nothospecies) of flowering plants in the pea family (Fabaceae), commonly known as bush clovers or (particularly East Asian species) Japanese clovers. The genus is native to warm temperate to subtropical regions of eastern North America, eastern and southern Asia and Australasia.
These shrubby plants or trailing vines belong to the "typical" legumes (Faboideae) like peas and beans, though within these they are part of another tribe, the Desmodieae. Therein, they are treated as type genus of the smaller subtribe Lespedezinae, which unites the present genus and its presumed closest relatives, Campylotropis and Kummerowia