| Shape | Drooping to weeping. |
| Landscape | Shade gardens, edges or margins, mass plantings, city and courtyard gardens, borders, cottages, informal gardens or as a specimen. |
| Cultivation | Grow in full sun to partial sun in moist, well-draining soil of any type. |
| Notable Specimens | Fanshawe College, London, Ontario, Canada. |
| Habitat | Horticultural origin. |
| Bark/Stem Description | Finely plated, dark grey bark that exfoliates. Limbs are often prone to splitting in heavy, wet snows. |
| Leaf Description | Cordate shaped leaves, light green in colour that grow to 6 - 10 cm across. Dull green on the underside and often slightly downy at the vein leaf axils. |
| Flower Description | Flowers are rose-purple with a bell shaped calyx and five petals. Clusters of 4 - 8 pink pea like flowers along branches and trunk prior to leaf emergence in the spring. |
| Fruit Description | Thin pods, often to 4 - 6 cm long and held in clusters of one to several. |
| Colour Description | Sporadic, yellow autumn colour. |
| Texture Description | Medium. |
