Plant
- Vigorous, twining vine
- Can be trained to appear as a shrub
- Deciduous
- Native and non-native species
Twig
- Alternate, compound leaf arrangement
Leaf
- 10-15" long
- Alternate, compound
- 9-19 leaflets
- Leaflets 1½-3" long
Flower
- ½-¾" wide
- 8-20" long, pendulant clusters
- Purple, lilac, pink, white
Fruit
- 4-6" long pod
- Green, maturing to brown
