Wisteria sinensis(Sims) DC.

Chinese wisteria

WFO wfo-0000214070 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Wisteria sinensis, photographed by Ryan Sorrells
fig. a Ryan Sorrells, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-25 / obs. 191162071
Wisteria sinensis, photographed by Leila Dasher
fig. b Leila Dasher, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 158048280
Wisteria sinensis, photographed by Samuel A Schmid, PhD, PWS
fig. c Samuel A Schmid, PhD, PWS, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 185890697
Wisteria sinensis, photographed by Yann Kemper
fig. d Yann Kemper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 195747107
Wisteria sinensis, photographed by Leila Dasher
fig. e Leila Dasher, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186647888
Wisteria sinensis, photographed by Nonbinary-Naturalist
fig. f Nonbinary-Naturalist, CC0 1.0 / obs. 184865483
Wisteria sinensis, photographed by Germán Hohmann
fig. g Germán Hohmann, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 159867870
Wisteria sinensis, photographed by Leila Dasher
fig. h Leila Dasher, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 158275146

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Flowering n = 1,758 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 1,758 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 23 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.

  • Apios sinensis (Sims) Spreng.
  • Glycine chinensis Sims
  • Glycine comosa Sims
  • Glycine sinensis Sims
  • Kraunhia chinensis (Sims) Greene
  • Millettia chinensis Benth.
  • Millettia sinensis (Sims) Benth.
  • Rehsonia brevidentata (Rehder) Stritch
  • Rehsonia sinensis (Sims) Stritch
  • Rehsonia villosa (Rehder) Stritch
  • Wistaria sinensis (Sims) DC.
  • Wisteria brevidentata Rehder
  • Wisteria chinensis Sweet
  • Wisteria chinensis (Sims) DC.
  • Wisteria consequana Sabine
  • Wisteria polystachya K.Koch
  • Wisteria praecox Hand.-Mazz.
  • Wisteria sinensis f. alba (Lindl.) Rehder & E.H.Wilson
  • Wisteria sinensis var. alba Lindl.
  • Wisteria sinensis var. albiflora Lem.
  • Wisteria sinensis var. brevidentata (Rehder) J.Compton & C.Lane
  • Wisteria sinensis var. villosa (Rehder) J.Compton & C.Lane
  • Wisteria villosa Rehder

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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.