Vitis vulpina |
Vitis subg. Vitis |
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chicken grape, fox grape, frost grape, vigne des renards, wild grape, winter grape |
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Habit | Plants moderate to high climbing, sparsely branched. | |
Branches | 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. |
bark exfoliating; lenticels inconspicuous or absent; pith interrupted by nodal diaphragms; tendrils branched or absent. |
Leaves | 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. |
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Inflorescences | 9–19 cm. |
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Flowers | functionally unisexual. |
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Berries | black, usually not, sometimes very slightly, 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 vulpina |
Vitis subg. Vitis |
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Phenology | Flowering May; fruiting Jul–Aug. | |
Habitat | Upland forests, floodplain forests, woodland borders, prairies, fencerows, thickets, roadsides. | |
Elevation | 0–2000 m. (0–6600 ft.) | |
Distribution |
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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North America; Mexico; Central America; South America; West Indies; Eurasia [Introduced nearly worldwide] |
Discussion | Species ca. 70 (18, including 3 hybrids, in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 12, p. 15. | FNA vol. 12, p. 8. |
Parent taxa | Vitaceae > Vitis > subg. Vitis | Vitaceae > Vitis |
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Synonyms | V. cordifolia, V. cordifolia var. sempervirens, V. illex, V. pullaria | |
Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 203. (1753) | unknown |
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