Chinese wisteria
Wisteria sinensis (Sims) DC.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 5.3 m
- wide
- 5.2 m
Fabaceae
Formerly Apios sinensis, Glycine sinensis, Kraunhia sinensis, Millettia sinensis, and 6 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- LianaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- C. & S. ChinaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 3.0 m to 7.6 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 1.2 m to 9.1 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, purple, blueRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension blue, pink, purple, white; Wikipedia blue, purple, violet, white
- Coldest it survives
- -28.9 °C (USDA zone 5a)Read from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- root
- WISSIN
- Portuguese
- Glicínia
- Chinese
- 紫藤, 紫藤子, 紫藤根
- Italian
- Glicine
- French
- Glycine de Chine
- Czech
- vistárie čínská, wistárie čínská
- Croatian
- Kineska glicinija
- German
- Chinesische Wisteria, Chinesischer Blauregen
- Russian
- Глициния китайская
- Danish
- Blåregn, Kinesisk Blåregn
- Japanese
- シナフジ
- Spanish
- Visteria china, Glicina
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 2.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Wisteria sinensis (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.