Vitis riparia |
Vitis subg. Vitis |
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frost grape, river grape, river-bank grape, vigne de rivages |
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Habit | Plants usually moderate to high climbing, sometimes sprawling, sparsely branched. | |
Branches | bark exfoliating in shreds; nodal diaphragms to 0.5 mm thick; branchlets terete, glabrous or sparsely hirtellous, growing tips 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. |
bark exfoliating; lenticels inconspicuous or absent; pith interrupted by nodal diaphragms; tendrils branched or absent. |
Leaves | stipules 3–5 mm; petiole 1/2 to ± equaling blade; blade cordate, 6–20 cm, 3-shouldered to shallowly 3-lobed, apex short acuminate, abaxial surface not glaucous, glabrate, visible through hairs, veins and vein axils hirtellous, adaxial surface glabrous. |
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Inflorescences | (4–)9–12 cm. |
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Flowers | functionally unisexual. |
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Berries | black, heavily glaucous, globose, 8–12 mm diam., skin separating from pulp; lenticels absent. |
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x | = 19. |
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2n | = 38. |
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Vitis riparia |
Vitis subg. Vitis |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jun; fruiting Aug–Sep. | |
Habitat | Stream and riverbanks, pond margins, alluvial woodlands, ravines, thickets, roadsides, fencerows. | |
Elevation | 0–2200 m. (0–7200 ft.) | |
Distribution |
AL; AR; CO; CT; DC; IA; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MA; MD; ME; MI; MN; MO; MS; MT; NC; ND; NE; NH; NJ; NM; NY; OH; OK; OR; PA; RI; SD; TN; TX; VA; VT; WA; WI; WV; WY; MB; NB; NS; ON; QC; SK
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North America; Mexico; Central America; South America; West Indies; Eurasia [Introduced nearly worldwide] |
Discussion | Vitis riparia is native throughout much of its range. It has become naturalized in a few locations in Saskatchewan, Oregon, and Washington. Plants on dunes around the Great Lakes with hairier petioles and leaf blades sometimes have been recognized as var. syrticola; variation in hairiness is essentially continuous, however, and the form is not worthy of taxonomic recognition (P. M. Catling and G. Mitrow 2005). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Species ca. 70 (18, including 3 hybrids, in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 12, p. 11. | FNA vol. 12, p. 8. |
Parent taxa | Vitaceae > Vitis > subg. Vitis | Vitaceae > Vitis |
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Synonyms | V. cordifolia var. riparia, V. riparia var. syrticola, V. vulpina subsp. riparia, V. vulpina var. syrticola | |
Name authority | Michaux: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 2: 231. (1803) | unknown |
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