Product Description

Amethyst Falls American Wisteria is a fast-growing twining deciduous vine native to the States with small leaves.  The drooping raceme sporting fragrant pea-like lilac flowers bloom on new growth, attracting bees and butterflies in spring with a light rebloom in summer.  Flat brown seedpods follow the flowers.  Blooms best in full sun and well-drained soil.  Amethyst Falls is not an aggressive spreader, but has low toxicity.

Wisteria frutescens is a host plant for Zarucco Duskywing, Marine Blue butterflies, Silver Spotted Skipper, and Long-Tailed Skipper butterflies.  Learn more about planting for butterflies with Georgia natives with this brochure.

MAINTENANCE NEEDS:  Medium maintenance.  Water regularly. No significant diseases or pest issues.  Failure to bloom may be due to being in too much shade, frost damage to buds, improper pruning or over-fertilization, or being too young.

LANDSCAPE USES:  Specimen or Mass Plantings, Wildlife Garden, Native Gardens, Trellises and Walls, and Containers.

COMPANION PLANTS: Rose, Daylily, Salvia

IMAGES: Photo by David J. Stang, Wisteria frutescens Amethyst Falls 1zz, CC BY-SA 4.0, (2) Dcrjsr, Wisteria on oak, CC BY 3.0, (3) Pinguino Anonimo, Glicine – Wisteria Frutescens, CC BY-SA 4.0

*As plants have ranges in appearance they may not appear as the images shown.

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