This perennial twiner has upright woody stems with spreading branches that form an irregular habit. It has divided leaves with dark green leaflets and the small pea-shaped white violet flowers appear in pendant clusters from late spring to early summer.

Hardiness zones 5 to 10 

Wisteria brachybotrys is naturally found in Japan growing in Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu on the mountains and the adjoining hillsides from sea level to an altitude of 1000 m (3,000 ft). 

It prefers an open sunny position and grows in well-drained organic rich moist sandy loams that are tending alkaline with a pH 7-8.5 and is frost and drought tolerant. 

The Silky Wisteria is grown for its fragrant flowers, twining habit and attractive foliage. It is grown over structures in parks and gardens as a specimen or trained along fences. It is suitable coastal and a low-mountain regions establishing in 3-4 years and has long lived but is rare in its native habitat. This wisteria and its cultivars are also grown in containers or used in roof gardens and are moderately deer resistant. ID 3696

Wisteria (wis-TE-re-a) brachybotrys (BRAK-ee-BOH-tris)

'Wisteria': after Professor Caspar Wistar of University of Pennsylvania, USA

Fabaceae (fab-AY-see-ee)