Description
Type: Vine
Family: Fabaceae
Zone: 5 to 9
Height: 25.00 to 30.00 feet
Spread: 10.00 to 15.00 feet
Bloom Time: April to May
Bloom Description: Lavender-purple in 4 to 6″ long clusters of legume-type flowers
Sun: Full sun
Water: Medium, well-drained soil
Maintenance: Medium, regular pruning
Flower: Showy, fragrant, pea-like, lilac-purple drooping flowers appear after the leaves emerge but before they develop fully
Leaf: Compound leaves with smaller 9 to 15 lance-shaped green leaflets in a more compact growth rate, non-aggressive
Fruit: Flowers give way to narrow, flattened, smooth seed pods (to 5” long) which ripen in summer, and split open in the fall
Tolerate: Deer resistant
