wisteria
Wisteria sp.
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Form & Habitat
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Leaves
Twigs
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Bark
Flowers
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Fruit
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  • FAMILY: FABACEAE
  • ALTERNATE COMMON NAME:
  • LEAVES: alternate, deciduous, pinnately-compound; 4-9 pairs of leaflets
  • FLOWER: lavender flowers on short pedicels
  • FRUIT: legume, cylindrical, torulose (expanded and constricted, like a bean pod), with longitudinal wrinkles
  • TWIGS:
  • BARK:
  • FORM: high-climbing vine; climbs by twining
  • HABITAT: banks along rivers; forest margins
  • WETLAND DESIGNATION: Varies by species in the Atlantic and Gulf Coast Plain Region
  • RANGE: Virginia to Texas
  • USES: ornamental
    • Best Recognition Features:
    1. vine with alternate, pinnately-compound leaves
    2. pedicels of purple flowers
    ADDITIONAL NOTES:
    Native:
      Wisteria macrostachya usually has 9 leaflets
    Exotics:
      Wisteria floribunda has 15-19 leaflets and Wisteria sinensis has 7-13 leaflets; both have a pubescent woody legume with a swollen basal end
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