TY for the replies!
If it's the native one, it can't be invasive, but may be too exuberant for a tended yard or flower bed.
I wouldn't call this early for this area. Wisteria usually blooms along with dogwoods, Azaleas, Violets, which are also blooming now. This tree was at the top of a riverbank. The flat area on one side of it is mowed occasionally. On the other side of the trunk, totally wild and a steep drop down to the river. I looked around on the ground for other wild flowers to photograph, and didn't see any seed pods, they probably got mowed on the side where it is possible to walk around.
From reading the article below, leaning toward Chinese (sinensis.) It says Japanese (floribunda) has flower racemes that are 2-3 feet long, so it can't be that. It says American (frutescens) has full foliage when it blooms, so that seems to rule that one out. The foliage on the one I photographed was not fully formed yet.
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