Does your wisteria have 1- to 3-foot-long chain-like clusters of heavily scented flowers (racemes), flowers may come in a variety of colors?
Does all flowers in one cluster of your wisteria open at once, well before the foliage appears?
Does your wisteria have 6-inch long flower clusters and silky hairs on foliage?
Does your wisteria have lilac-blue, not heavily scented flowers, bunched in 4- to 6-inch-wide clusters?
You have a Japanese Wisteria (Wisteria floribunda). Wisteria floribunda is a vigorous deciduous climber with pinnate leaves and, in early summer, fragrant, pea-like, violet-blue, pink, or white flowers in racemes to 12 inches or longer. It may be trained horizontally, up to 30 feet, or further. A reliable choice for gardeners in northern climates.
You have a Chinese Wisteria (Wisteria sinensis). Wisteria sinensis is a large deciduous climber with twining stems, dark green, pinnate leaves, and drooping racemes up to 12 inches in length, of fragrant, mauve, or lilac-colored flowers opening before the leaves. The flowers bloom gradually over weeks. It may be trained horizontally, up to 25 feet, or further.
You have a Silky Wisteria (Wisteria brachybotrys). Wisteria brachybotrys is a vigorous, deciduous climber twining anticlockwise and reaching a height and spread of 30 ft or more. The leaves comprise 9-13 oval to ovate, downy leaflets. Slightly fragrant, violet-blue to white flowers up to 1 inch long are borne in racemes 4-6 inches long and followed by velvety seedpods. Blooming improves with age and regular pruning.
You have an American Wisteria (Wisteria frutescens). Wisteria frutescens is a deciduous climber to 10-30 ft tall and 10 ft wide with leaves comprising up to 15 leaflets. Fragrant purplish-blue flowers with a yellow spot, each up to 1 inch in diameter, are densely produced on racemes 2-6 inches long in summer. It has the shortest racemes of the wisteria family.
If your wisteria has 6- to 12-inch flower clusters with flowers emerging in June you have a Kentucky Wisteria (Wisteria macrostachya). Wisteria macrostachya is a deciduous vine that can grow up to 15-25 ft tall. Flowers bloom somewhat simultaneously on the racemes. Flowers give way to pendant, velvety, bean-like seed pods which ripen in autumn and may persist into winter.
https://www.gardendesign.com/wisteria/types.html#japaneseWisteria
https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/19123/Wisteria-floribunda/Details
https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/19126/Wisteria-sinensis/Details
https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/21014/Wisteria-brachybotrys/Details
http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?taxonid=265854
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