Wisteria sinensis (Sims) Sweet
Detail
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Botanical Name
- Wisteria sinensis (Sims) Sweet
- Common Name
- Chinese Wisteria
- Synonym(s)
- Flora of Virginia Name/Status
- Wisteria sinensis (Sims) DC.
- Comments
- Some of our material may represent Wistera xformosa Rehder, a complex series of hybrids and backcrosses between W. floribunda and W. sinensis. See Weed Research 47: 479-487 (2007) and Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 158: 593-601(2008).
- Habitat
- Cultivated, escaped to forests, borders, fencerows; shade-tolerant and very invasive in mesic forest habitats. Locally common in the Coastal Plain and Piedmont; rare in the mountains.
- Native Status
- Introduced
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