WINTER GRAPE
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Vitis vulpina L.
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| Morris County, Kansas |
| Height: Vines to 80 feet long |
| Family: Vitaceae - Grape Family |
| Flowering Period: May, June, July |
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| Also Called: | | Chicken grape. | | Trunks: | | Stems climbing; branches unarmed, tips not enveloped by unfolding leaves, tendrils persistent, branched; bark grayish brown, furrowed or sometimes exfoliating in thin strips; wood light brown, soft. | | Twigs: | | Greenish brown to reddish brown, flexible, glabrous; leaf scars half-round to crescent-shaped; pith brown; buds ovoid, .16 to .2 inch, apex acute, scales tomentose. | | Leaves: | | Deciduous, alternate, simple; petiole 1.6 to 2.8 inches, glabrous; blade cordate to ovate, 4 to 6 inches long, 3.2 to 4 inches wide, base ovate to cordate, margins more or less regularly dentate with teeth usually convex on both sides, usually unlobed, sometimes shallowly 3-lobed, apex acuminate, lower surfaces light green, hirtellous along veins and in axils, not glaucous, upper surfaces green, glabrous. | | Flowers: | | Inflorescences opposite leaves on new growth, thyrses, 50-200-flowered, lax, 4 to 5.6 inches; peduncle .4 to 2.4 inches, glabrous or sparsely pubescent; pedicels .2 to .24 inch, glabrous. Flowers dioecious; unisexual, radially symmetric; sepals 5, connate, lobes green, reduced to an obscure rim; petals 5, connate distally, white, oblong to elliptic, ca. .08 inch; staminate: stamens 5, to .08 inch; pistillate: pistil 1, ovary superior, 2-locular; style 1; stigma 1, lobed. | | Fruit: | | August-October; berries, dark purple to black, globose, .24 to .4 inch diam., smooth, slightly glaucous or not, glabrous, flesh not milky; seeds 14, grayish brown, broadly ovoid, .18 to .24 inch long, .14 to .16 inch wide, smooth. | | Habitat: | | Floodplain forests, mesic upland forests, stream banks, thickets, bases of bluffs. | | Distribution: | | East 1/2 of Kansas | | Origin: | | Native | | Comments: | | Vitis vulpina is most often confused with V. riparia; the former typically has more uniform teeth with convex sides and thicker nodal diaphragms. |
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| Winter grape leaves |  | | 106 KB | | Morris County, Kansas |
| | Winter grape inflorescence |  | | 82 KB | | Eastern Kansas (photo by Craig Freeman) |
| | Winter grape fruit |  | | 127 KB | | Morris County, Kansas |
| | Winter grape fruit |  | | 155 KB | | Morris County, Kansas |
| | Winter grape bud |  | | 36 KB | | Morris County, Kansas |
| | Winter grape bark |  | | 112 KB | | Morris County, Kansas |
| | Winter grape fruit |  | | 257 KB | | Morris County, Kansas |
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