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Vitis vulpina

Botanic Family

Vitaceae

Author

Linnaeus

Common Names

• Frost Grape
• Chicken Grape
• Winter Grape
• Fox Grape
• Wild Grape
• Raccoon Grape
• River Grape
• Riverbank Grape
• Vigne des Battures
• Arroyo Grape

Geographical Habitats

• New Brunswick
• Ontario - Canada
• Alabama
• Arkansas
• California
• Colorado
• Delaware
• Florida
• Georgia
• Illinois
• Indiana
• Iowa
• Kansas
• Kentucky
• Louisiana
• Maryland
• Massachusetts
• Michigan
• Mississippi
• Missouri
• Montana
• Nebraska
• New Jersey
• New Mexico
• New York
• North Carolina
• Ohio
• Oklahoma
• Pennsylvania
• South Carolina
• Tennessee
• Texas
• Virginia
• West Virginia
• Wisconsin
• Wyoming - USA

Natural Habitats

• Secondary woodland
• riverside
• streamside
• thickets
• montane areas
• gallery forest

Flowering Times

• Apr- Jul (USA) Early to mid-summer

Fruiting Times

• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct

Low bushy or high-climbing woody tendril vine with 3-5 lobed or unlobed deeply toothed leaves to 200mm across, pubescent on nerves & margins. Panicles or racemes to 200mm long of scented white flowers. 12mm diameter shiny black-blue fruit, sometimes prostrate

Further References

• Sturtevant 1919
• Rehder 1934
• Bean 1950
• Bailey 1976
• Krussmann 1976
• Huxley 1992
• Nicholls 1995
• GWC 1997
• Mobot
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• JAA
• USDA
• FOSEUS
• FRM
• USNH
• Gleason & Moldenke