Wisteria floribunda(Willd.) DC.

Japanese wisteria

WFO wfo-0000214069 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Wisteria floribunda, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. a Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-05-19 / obs. 130156005
Wisteria floribunda, photographed by Tom Field
fig. b Tom Field, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 129390567
Wisteria floribunda, photographed by Yoshimasa Uchiyama
fig. c Yoshimasa Uchiyama, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 128301420
Wisteria floribunda, photographed by WATANABE Hitoshi 渡辺仁
fig. d WATANABE Hitoshi 渡辺仁, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 126641833
Wisteria floribunda, photographed by WATANABE Hitoshi 渡辺仁
fig. e WATANABE Hitoshi 渡辺仁, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 125863535
Wisteria floribunda, photographed by Liz Crafford
fig. f Liz Crafford, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 126533849
Wisteria floribunda, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. g Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 72722099
Wisteria floribunda, photographed by Kim, Hyun-tae
fig. h Kim, Hyun-tae, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 47670775

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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Wisteria floribunda is native: Japan Japan
Native distribution of Wisteria floribunda, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Japan JAP ASIA-TEMPERATE

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 53 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Cynometra hostmanii Tul.
  • Dolichos japonicus Spreng.
  • Dolichos polystachyos Thunb.
  • Glycine floribunda Willd.
  • Glycine japonica hort. ex Reider
  • Glycine macrobotrys (Siebold ex Lemoine) Jacob-Makoy
  • Glycine multijuga (Van Houtte) Clémenc.
  • Glycine multijuga var. alba de Vos
  • Kraunhia floribunda (Willd.) Taub.
  • Kraunhia floribunda f. albiflora Makino
  • Kraunhia floribunda f. pleniflora (Makino) Makino
  • Kraunhia floribunda var. alba (de Vos) Nash
  • Kraunhia floribunda var. macrobotrys (Siebold ex Lemoine) Nash
  • Kraunhia floribunda var. violacea-plena (C.K.Schneid.) Nash
  • Kraunhia sinensis var. albiflora Makino
  • Kraunhia sinensis var. floribunda (Willd.) Makino
  • Kraunhia sinensis var. pleniflora Makino
  • Millettia floribunda (Willd.) Matsum.
  • Millettia japonica f. microphylla (Makino) T.Yamanaka & H.Ohashi
  • Millettia japonica var. microphylla Makino
  • Phaseoloides floribunda (Willd.) Kuntze
  • Rehsonia floribunda (Willd.) Stritch
  • Rehsonia nipponica Stritch
  • Wisteria alba (de Vos) Carrière

and 29 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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