I found this walking down our driveway. It has leaves simular to wisteria but the flowers are a brick red color the flowers hang like wisteria but smaller clusters which are numerous.

Are you in Tennessee?
Please, you say the color of the bloom is brick red but my eyes are seeing more of a purple/mauve color. Can you upload more images of the blooms? And maybe another photo in which you isolate the foliage that belongs to the vine.

Is the bloom similar in form to a pea flower?

I am in Athens tn. It does kinda look simular to pea but not exactly its a


Almost red brown flower in cluster bugs have eaten away at clusters. So they not as pretty as they should be

Bloom also looks like runner bean of some kind.

It is not a sweet pea.. It smells a little funky . i picked it hoping it wouldnt give me a rash cause some things here in tn can.

I will go back down drive pick longer peice.

This vine is kind tough not like bean plants at all. So i dont know . ive searched many sites with no avail yet.

Groundnut, Apios americana?

The foliage looks correct for the Apios.

Apios americana


If there iare a lot, you could forage for the underground nuts:

I will do so as well i did some reasearch last night and found out how to prepare them plus some recipes nevet know might be good.

Plus the whole bank is just full of them but right now poison ivy and skeetets keep me at bay.

If you get any seeds from them please let me know. I'd love to try some and would happily trade you something for them.

Well the bugs eating fliwers but i will fig some roots up anyway maybe be able to nox you some up to try to grow for postsge cause i live on fixed income . just remind me .

As you probably know, they like moist soil, which I don't have. In fact this very wet year is the first time they have flowered at all in 6 years. They are about two-thirds done blooming here, and not even one seed pod.

I bet i dont get seed pods cause those bugs going to town on them i will look tomorrow. You know i found out you can grow them in large pots im going to do this with those large round plastic laundry type tubs next year with drain hole or 2 in it. Build a fence for them see how it goes. Mine are located by a creek yet way above the water by our driveway.

This way i can control the water and keep bugs off.