1800 J. E. Smith II. 518 Leafy-branched Spurge.
1901 1422/1 [Potentilla] Nepalensis, Hook... Clothed with long, soft, spreading hairs, leafy-branched.
1946 (Lexington (Mass.) Bot. Garden) 13 Apr. 3 If the leafy stem is branched (as with most annuals, Gypsophila or Aster), with true leaves on the side shoots as well as flowers, that plant is leafy branched.