Wisteria

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Wisteria
Flowering Wisteria sinensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Fabales
Family:	Fabaceae
Subfamily:	Faboideae
Tribe:	Wisterieae
Genus:	Wisteria Nutt. (1818), nom. cons.
Synonyms[1]
Bradburia Spreng. (1826) Diplonyx Raf. (1817), nom. rej. Kraunhia Raf. (1891), nom. superfl. Phaseoloides Duhamel (1755), nom. rej. Rehsonia Stritch (1984) Thyrsanthus Elliott (1818), nom. illeg. Wistaria Nutt. ex Spreng. (1826), orth. var.

Wisteria is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae (Leguminosae). The genus includes four species of woody twining vines that are native to China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, southern Canada, the Eastern United States, and north of Iran. They were later introduced to France, Germany and various other countries in Europe. Some species are popular ornamental plants. The genus name is also used as the English name, and may then be spelt 'wistaria'.^[2][3] In some countries in Western and Central Europe, Wisteria is also known by a variant spelling of the genus in which species were formerly placed, Glycine. Examples include the French glycines, the German Glyzinie, and the Polish glicynia.^{[citation needed]}

The aquatic flowering plant commonly called wisteria or 'water wisteria' is Hygrophila difformis, in the family Acanthaceae.