| Scientific Name: | Wisteria floribunda |
| Common Name: | Japanese wisteria |
| Family Name: | Fabaceae |
| Origin: | S.E. Asia / Japan / China |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Vine - deciduous, Vine or climber |
| Mature Size: | 22 - 30m x 5 - 7m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Irregular |
| Form: | Climbing |
| Texture: | Coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Arbors or trellis, Fragrance |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Compound, Alternate, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Odd-pinnate, Lanceolate, Ovate, Entire, Undulate (wavy) |
| Flowers: | Raceme, Violet, May |
| Fruit: | Legume, Green, Brown, Sep-Oct, (Persistent) |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves alternate to 35cm long, pinnately compound with (9-)11-15(-19) leaflets, most lanceolate-elliptic, 6-8(-13)cm long; raceme to 40cm long, florets pea-like, up to 2cm wide, blue-violet or pink-white, fragrant; pods (legumes) long, felty, brown, 8-15cm long. Winter ID: liana, twines clockwise; buds acute with 2 glands at base; leaf node has spine-like projection; persistent pods. | |