Vitis vinifera |
Vitis acerifolia |
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cultivated grape, European grape, grape of commerce, wine grape |
bush or panhandle or mapleleaf grape, mapleleaf grape |
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Habit | Plants sprawling to moderately high climbing, sparsely branched. | Plants low to moderately high climbing, much branched. |
Branches | bark exfoliating in shreds or plates; nodal diaphragms 3–5 mm thick; branchlets terete to slightly angled, pubescent, sometimes glabrescent, growing tips not enveloped by unfolding leaves; tendrils along length of branchlets, persistent, tendrils (or inflorescences) at only 2 consecutive nodes; nodes not red-banded. |
bark tardily exfoliating in plates; nodal diaphragms to 0.5(–1) mm thick; branchlets terete, whitish arachnoid or glabrate, growing tips enveloped by unfolding leaves, sparsely to densely hairy; tendrils along length of branchlets, soon deciduous if not attached to support, branched, tendrils (or inflorescences) at only 2 consecutive nodes; nodes not red-banded. |
Leaves | stipules usually more than 3.5 mm; petiole ± equaling blade; blade cordate-ovate to cordate-orbiculate, 12–20 cm, usually 3-shouldered to 3–5-lobed, sometimes deeply so, apex acute to short acuminate, abaxial surface not glaucous, sparsely pubescent to glabrate, visible through hairs, adaxial surface usually glabrous. |
stipules 3–6 mm; petiole 1/2–2/3 blade; blade broadly cordate, 7–12 cm, usually 3-shouldered to shallowly 3-lobed, apex usually short acuminate, abaxial surface not glaucous, sparsely arachnoid to glabrate, visible through hairs, veins sparsely hirtellous, adaxial surface slightly arachnoid to glabrate. |
Inflorescences | 10–20 cm. |
3–7(–9) cm. |
Flowers | bisexual. |
functionally unisexual. |
Berries | usually reddish purple to nearly black, sometimes yellow-green, ± glaucous, oblong to ellipsoid, 8–25 mm diam., skin adhering to pulp; lenticels absent. |
black, heavily glaucous, globose, 8–12 mm diam., skin separating from pulp; lenticels absent. |
2n | = 38, 76. |
= 38. |
Vitis vinifera |
Vitis acerifolia |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jun; fruiting Jul–Sep. | Flowering Apr–May; fruiting Jul–Aug. |
Habitat | Riparian areas, disturbed sites. | Stream and riverbanks, prairie ravines, alluvial floodplain woodlands, dunes, rocky slopes, fencerows. |
Elevation | 0–1200 m. (0–3900 ft.) | 200–2300 m. (700–7500 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA; ID; MA; NH; NY; OR; PA; WA; BC; Europe [Introduced in North America]
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CO; KS; NM; OK; TX |
Discussion | Vitis vinifera and cultivars formed by hybridization between it and native North American species or through selection are cultivated in Europe, many parts of the United States and southern Canada, and parts of Central and South America, Africa, Asia, and Australia; these have been reported persisting from cultivation (for example, in California, Utah, and Virginia) and occasionally escaping. Some specimens keying here may represent naturally occurring hybrids between native species and V. vinifera or its hybrid cultivars. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 12, p. 8. | FNA vol. 12, p. 11. |
Parent taxa | Vitaceae > Vitis > subg. Vitis | Vitaceae > Vitis > subg. Vitis |
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Synonyms | V. cordifolia var. solonis, V. longii, V. longii var. microsperma, V. nuevomexicana, V. solonis, V. solonis var. microsperma | |
Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 202. (1753) | Rafinesque: Med. Fl. 2: 130, plate 99, fig. C. (1830) |
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