Flora of North America species comparison

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Vitis palmata

catbird grape, red grape
Habit Plants high climbing, sparsely branched.
Branches

bark exfoliating in shreds;

nodal diaphragms 2.5–4 mm thick;

branchlets uniformly red, purplish red, or chestnut, subterete, glabrous or very sparsely arachnoid, growing tips not enveloped by unfolding leaves;

tendrils red-pigmented when young, along length of branchlets, persistent, branched, tendrils (or inflorescences) at only 2 consecutive nodes;

nodes not red-banded.
Leaves

stipules 1.5–3 mm;

petiole somewhat shorter than blade;

blade usually cordate, 8–14 cm, usually deeply 3(–5)-lobed, apex long acuminate, abaxial surface not glaucous, glabrous, visible, veins and vein axils sometimes hirtellous, adaxial surface glabrous.
Inflorescences

6–18 cm.
Flowers

functionally unisexual.
Berries

bluish black to black, slightly or not glaucous, globose, 8–10 mm diam., skin separating from pulp;

lenticels absent.
2n

= 38.

Vitis palmata
Phenology Flowering mid Jun–early Jul; fruiting Aug–Oct.
Habitat Riverbanks, sloughs, alluvial floodplain woodlands.
Elevation 0–200 m. (0–700 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
AL; AR; FL; GA; IL; IN; KY; LA; MO; MS; OK; TN; TX
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Discussion

Reports of Vitis palmata from Virginia (for example, in A. S. Weakley et al. 2012) appear to be based on misidentified material of V. vulpina with somewhat lobed leaves.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 12, p. 15.
Parent taxa Vitaceae > Vitis > subg. Vitis
Sibling taxa
V. acerifolia, V. aestivalis, V. arizonica, V. californica, V. cinerea, V. girdiana, V. labrusca, V. monticola, V. mustangensis, V. riparia, V. rotundifolia, V. rupestris, V. shuttleworthii, V. vinifera, V. vulpina, V. ×champinii, V. ×doaniana, V. ×novae-angliae
Synonyms V. rubra
Name authority Vahl: Symb. Bot. 3: 42. (1794)
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