Blue Moon Wisteria is a reblooming native deciduous vine with strongly fragrant hanging panicles. The long drooping raceme sporting fragrant lavender blue pea-like flowers that bloom in flushes in spring and twice more in summer attracting bees and butterflies in droves. Flat velvety seedpods follow the flowers. Blooms best in full sun and well-drained soil. Blue Moon is Less aggressive.
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Type: |
Perennial, Vine |
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Origins: |
Various |
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Height: |
15’ - 25’ |
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Spread: |
4’ - 8’ |
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Spacing: |
6’ |
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USDA Hardiness Zone: |
4 - 9 |
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Culture: |
Full Sun |
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Bloom Color: |
Blue |
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Season of Interest: |
Spring, Summer |
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: Photoset by F. D. Richards (1) Wisteria macrostachys 'Blue Moon' 6 2021 Kentucky wisteria- (51235998686),CC BY-SA 2.0, (2) Wisteria macrostachys 'Blue Moon' (American Native) 2020 photo, (3) Wisteria macrostachys 'Blue Moon' 6/2022 Kentucky wisteria G4-, (4) Megan Hansen, Wisteria macrostachya 'Blue Moon' 2
*As plants have ranges in appearance they may not appear as the images shown.
