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Wisteria floribunda (Willd.) DC.

Japanese wisteria

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Kraunhia floribunda (Willd.) Taubert
Rehsonia floribunda (Willd.) Stritch

 

Wisteria floribunda (Japanese wisteria)

6/10/2016 · Monhegan Island, Maine

KingdomPlantaePlants, but not fungi, lichens, or algae (from Stearn's Botanical Latin)
SubkingdomTracheobiontaVascular plants—plants with a “circulatory system” for delivering water and nutrients
DivisionMagnoliophytaFlowering plants, also known as angiosperms
ClassMagnoliopsidaDicotyledons—plants with two initial seed leaves
SubclassRosidaeRoses, legumes, proteas, dogwoods, hydrangeas, mistletoes, euphorbias, grapes, many more
OrderFabalesLegumes (pea and bean families)
FamilyFabaceaeLegume family (peas and beans)
GenusWisteriaFor Dr. Caspar Wistar (1761-1818), anatomist and professor of chemistry and physiology, who aided Thomas Jefferson in identifying fossils and provided natural sciences instruction for the Lewis and Clark expedition
SpeciesfloribundaFrom floris, “flower,” or florere, “to flower,” with the Latin adjectival suffix -bundus used in the sense of doing or action accomplished, and thus meaning “profusely flowering, producing or having produced abundant flowers”

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Wisteria floribunda description by Thomas H. Kent, not updated.

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