A field study was initiated on a Davidson sandy clay loam, clayey, kaolinitic, thermic Rhodic Paleudult soil in central Georgia in 1982 to evaluate P response of high‐ and low‐tannin sericea lespedeza (Lespedeza cuneata(Dumont) G. Don) cultivars. Following application of 0, 35, 70 or 105 kg ha‐1P, soil test values at the 0–15 cm depth ranged from 10.0 mg kg‐1in the control plots to 42 mg kg‐1at the 105 kg ha‐1P application rate.