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Vitis munsoniana Simpson. Little muscadine grape. 



Muscadinia munsoniana Small. 

 Range: 30, 31. 



Site: Dry, well-drained, sun, shade. 

 Fruit : Berry, available August-November. 

 A slender, trailing vine ; blooms nearly continuously ; usually not high-climbing. 



Vitis muscadina, see Vitis rotundifolia. 

 Vitis nova-mexicana, see Vitis longii. 



Vitis novae-angliae Fern. Pilgrim grape. 



Range: 26, 27. 

 Site : Well-drained, sun. 

 Fruit : Berry, available in September. 

 A vigorous, climbing vine ; often forms thickets of great profusion. 



Vitis palmata Vahl. Cat grape. 



V. rubra Michx. 



Range : 22, 25, 29. 

 Site : Well-drained, sun. 



Fruit : Berry, available September-October, persistent. 



A slender, high-climbing vine ; flowers May-June ; roots fibrous at the surface, 

 hard and penetrating ; resistant to drought and cold when established ; resistant 

 to Phylloxera; free from disease; seed germination very slow. 



Vitis riparia, see Vitis vulpina. 



Vitis rotundifolia Michx. Muscadine grape. 



V. muscadina Raf., Muscadinia rotundifolia (Michx.) Small. 

 Range : 20', 22, 25, 28, 29, 30. 

 Site: Well-drained, moist, sun, shade. 

 Fruit : Berry, available August-September. 



A very vigorous, high-climbing vine ; flowers in May ; occurs in sandy and 

 other soils ; roots thick, little-branched ; berries drop singly as soon as ripe ; 

 free from diseases ; cuttings root with difficulty, but layers of wood twisted 

 withelike at one point when covered root easily ; the original of the Scupper- 

 nong grape. 



Stomach records: Cardinal, bobwhite; opossum. Observations: Cardinal. 



Vitis rubra, see Vitis palmata. 



Vitis rufotomentosa Small. Redshank grape. 



Range: 29, 30. 

 Site : Well-drained, sun. 

 Fruit: Berry, available August-September. 

 A strong, high-climbing vine. 



Vitis rupestris Scheele. Sand grape. 



Range : 11, 16, 17, 20, 25, 27, 28, 29. 



Site: Well-drained, sun. 



Fruit : Berry, available July-August. . 



A vigorous, much-branched vine, or more commonly a low, bushy shrub ; 

 occasionally prostrate and trailing ; succeeds in poor, calcareous and sandy 

 soils ; roots slender, long ; almost entirely resistant to Phylloxera; more or less 

 resistant to drought ; resistant to cold ; not resistant to anthracnose ; resistant 

 to other diseases and insects ; easily propagated by cuttings ; 80 percent of 

 cuttings root; pistillate plants rarely produce fruit alone; seed germination 

 rapid. 



Observations: Deer. Browsed by cattle and sheep. 



Vitis simpsonii Munson. Currant grape. 



V. cincerea floridana Munson, V. austrina Small. 

 Range : 29, 30 . 

 Site: Well-drained, sun. 

 Fruit : Berry, available in August 

 A strong, high-climbing vine. 



Vitis slavinii, see Vitis vulpina. 



