American wisteria, Wisteria frutescens (Carolina kidney-bean tree, Glycine frutescens). Native to the southeastern US from Virginia to Texas, introduced by English naturalist Mark Catesby in 1724. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, edited by John Sims, London, 1819.

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