NATIVE WOODY PLANTS OF THE UNITED STATES 28S 
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 museadina, 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 Phyllovera; free from disease; seed germination very slow. 
Vitis riparia, see Vitis vuilpina. 
Vitis rotundifolia Michx. IMuscadine grape. 
V. muscadina Raf., Muscadinia rotundifolia (Michx.) Smail. 
Range: 20, 22, 25, 28, 29, 30. 
Site: Well-drained, moist, sun, shade. 
Fruit: Berry, availabie 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, boowhite; opossum. Odservations: Cardinal. 
Vitis rubra, see Vitis paimata. 
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, caleareous and sandy 
soils; roots slender, long; almost entirely resistant to Phyllorera; 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. 
