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About Wisteria Violacea (Wisteria)

Wisteria venusta Violacea - American Wisteria - This is the normal wild form with purplish flowers. A deciduous climber growing 30 ft and upwards high; young shoots softly downy. Leaves pinnate, 8 to 14 in. long, composed usually of eleven leaflets, sometimes nine or thirteen; main-stalk downy. Leaflets oval to ovate, with a tapered apex and usually rounded base, 11⁄2 to 31⁄2 in. long, 1⁄2 to 11⁄2 in. wide, both surfaces, but especially the lower one, softly downy. Racemes pendulous 4 to 6 in. long, 3 to 4 in. wide, the stalks densely downy. Flowers purple, opening in May and June, slightly fragrant, 1 to 11⁄4 in. long; standard petal roundish, 1 in. wide, stained with yellow at the base. Calyx downy, cup-shaped, about 1⁄2 in. wide, the lobes triangular or awl-shaped; flower-stalks about 11⁄2 in. long at the base of the raceme, becoming shorter towards the end. Pods 6 to 8 in. long, velvety.   Family: Fabaceae  

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