| Author | (Sims) de Candolle | |
| Distribution | Occurs throughout the state. Website editors have not checked the ID of these specimens. It is likely that some of these collections may be W. x formosa, a hybrid cultivar between Japanese (W. floribunda) and Chinese Wisterias. See Weakley (2018) for information.
Native of eastern Asia; in N.A. VT to MI and MO, south to FL and TX. | |
| Abundance | Frequent to common in the central and eastern parts of the state; uncommon to infrequent westward. | |
| Habitat | Roadside woods margins, urban and suburban street margins, wooded margins on campuses, edges of parking lots, maritime forest edge, fields, back yards. Can cause tree mortality via constriction and/or via weighing it down. This species can be quite invasive, and spread into some forests and natural areas. | |
| Phenology | Flowering April-July; fruiting July-November. | |
| Identification | Chinese Wisteria is a high-climbing vine with tough woody stems that wind around trunks and poles. It has 7-11 leaflets per leaf, and the flowers open almost simultaneously throughout the raceme -- versus 7-17 leaflets and the flowers opening sequentially from the base of the raceme to the top in Japanese Wisteria (W. floribunda). | |
| Taxonomic Comments | See Weakley (2018) for information on the hybrid cultivar.
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| State Rank | SE | |
| Global Rank | GNR | |
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