Vitis mustangensis |
Vitis vulpina |
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mustang grape |
chicken grape, fox grape, frost grape, vigne des renards, wild grape, winter grape |
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Habit | Plants high climbing, sparsely branched. | Plants moderate to high climbing, sparsely branched. |
Branches | bark exfoliating in shreds; nodal diaphragms 1.5–3 mm thick; branchlets subterete to terete, densely to sparsely tomentose, growing tips not enveloped by unfolding leaves; tendrils along length of branchlets, persistent, branched, tendrils (or inflorescences) at only 2 consecutive nodes; nodes not red-banded. |
bark exfoliating in shreds; nodal diaphragms 1–2.5 mm thick; branchlets gray to green or brown, if purplish only on one side, terete, glabrous, growing tips not enveloped by unfolding leaves, glabrous or sparsely hairy; tendrils along length of branchlets, persistent, branched, tendrils (or inflorescences) at only 2 consecutive nodes; nodes not red-banded. |
Leaves | stipules 1.5–4 mm; petiole 1/2–3/4 blade; blade cordate to nearly reniform, 6–14 cm, usually unlobed but sometimes 3-shouldered or deeply 3–5 lobed, apex acute to obtuse, abaxial surface not glaucous, densely white to rusty tomentose, concealed (except sometimes veins) by hairs, adaxial surface floccose to glabrate. |
stipules 1.5–3 mm; petiole ± equaling blade; blade cordate, (5–)9–18 cm, usually unlobed or shallowly 3-lobed, sometimes deeply lobed on ground shoots, apex acute to short acuminate, abaxial surface not glaucous, glabrous, visible, veins and vein axils sometimes hirtellous, adaxial surface usually glabrous, sometimes sparsely hirtellous. |
Inflorescences | 4–10 cm. |
9–19 cm. |
Flowers | functionally unisexual. |
functionally unisexual. |
Berries | usually black, sometimes dark red, slightly or not glaucous, globose, 12+ mm diam., skin separating from pulp; lenticels absent. |
black, usually not, sometimes very slightly, glaucous, globose, 8–12 mm diam., skin separating from pulp; lenticels absent. |
2n | = 38. |
= 38. |
Vitis mustangensis |
Vitis vulpina |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–early Jun; fruiting Aug–Sep. | Flowering May; fruiting Jul–Aug. |
Habitat | Woodland edges, fencerows, thickets, lowland woods, disturbed areas. | Upland forests, floodplain forests, woodland borders, prairies, fencerows, thickets, roadsides. |
Elevation | 0–700 m. (0–2300 ft.) | 0–2000 m. (0–6600 ft.) |
Distribution |
AL; LA; MS; OK; TX
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AL; AR; DC; DE; FL; GA; IA; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MD; MI; MO; MS; NC; NE; NJ; NY; OH; OK; PA; SC; SD; TN; TX; VA; WV; ON
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Discussion | In several early publications (for example, T. V. Munson 1909), Vitis mustangensis was known as V. candicans Engelmann ex A. Gray. M. O. Moore (1991) argued that the name V. candicans is ambiguous and not identifiable with any species based on the original description, making the more recent name V. mustangensis the valid and legitimate one for this species. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 12, p. 10. | FNA vol. 12, p. 15. |
Parent taxa | Vitaceae > Vitis > subg. Vitis | Vitaceae > Vitis > subg. Vitis |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | V. candicans var. diversa, V. mustangensis var. diversa | V. cordifolia, V. cordifolia var. sempervirens, V. illex, V. pullaria |
Name authority | Buckley: Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 13: 451. (1862) | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 203. (1753) |
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