1674

Woody vine
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere)
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Look for it in swamp forests, wet thickets, per Weakley's Flora

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...Wet ...Moist ...Variable

LEAVES:
Deciduous
Compound: Odd-pinnate
Mostly alternate

FLOWER:
Spring
Blue-violet
Bilaterally symmetrical
2-lipped campanulate calyx
5-parted papilionaceous corolla
10 stamens, diadelphous, 9 and 1
Superior ovary

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Legume

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

• Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers p055
• Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses p302
• Gardening with Native Plants of the South p105
• Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee p231
• Native Alternatives to Invasive Plants p145
• Native Shrubs and Woody Vines of the Southeast p080
• Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry p097
• Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p128
• Wildflowers of Tennessee p145
• Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p182
• Woody Plants of the Blue Ridge p08

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Wisteria frutescens   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Wisteria frutescens   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 098-31-001:
Wisteria frutescens   FAMILY Fabaceae

GREATER THAN Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991):
Wisteria macrostachya