An uncommon high-climbing deciduous vine of bottomland forests in the Coastal Plain with unscented flowers that emerge after the leaves.

Pender Co., NC 4/23/06.

The flowers are unscented. Much less common than the similar Chinese Wisteria, which has grape-scented flowers that bloom before the leaves emerge and has velvety seed pods, unlike the smooth ones of American Wisteria.

Pender Co., NC 4/23/06.

Rare in the Piedmont, where it is more commonly seen as an ornamental. In Durham Co., NC this species has been collected in two spots - along CR 1113, 0.1 mi from the Durham-Orange line and "Sand Creek, Cole's Cemetery".

Planted specimen, Chapel Hill, NC.

This is the cultivar 'Amethyst Falls'.

Same plant.