VITIS AESTIVALIS 
V. sestivalis Summer Grape. Very tall vigorous climber: leaves rusty—tomentose 
or cobwebby on under side of the large soft lobed leaves: fruit 1/3 inch in 
diameter, glabrous, black. New England to Florida and Kansas. - Norton Virginie 
grape is supposed to be a derivative. -- Hortus Second, 1941 

¥. acstivelis Michx. Leaf blades varying from broader than long to longer than 
broad, 1-3 dm in diameter, engularly or deeply 3-5-lobed, shallowly toothed, dull 
green and glabrate above, more or less densely, often unevenly, cobwebby or floc- 
culent beneath, with rusty or brown hairs, cordate: petioles usually glabrous: 
panicles 1-2.5 dm long, often conspicuously elongate and rathe& simple: berry 
globose, 8-10 mm in diameter, black, under a bloom, with a tough skin, and pulp 
varying from sweet to very astringent. (Summer Grape, Pigeon Grape). Thickets 
and rocky places, various provinces, Florida to Texas, Kansas, and New Hampshire. 
#. Manuel of the Southeastern Flora by J. K. Small, 1933 
Vitis aestivalis Michaux, Flora bor. Amer. 2 p. 2530 

Synonyms: 
V¥.Lacinosa and vinifera, var, Americana, Marsh, Arbust pp 165-6 
V. labrusca, Walter, ps 24% 
V. vulpina, Poir, Dist. 8, p 607 
V. vulpina, Jacq. Hort. Schoenb, 4, 15, t 425 vide Regel 
V. labrusca, Planch. 1.c. 109 
V. Virginiana, Poir. Dist. 8, 608 
V. intermedia and labruscoides, Muhl. Cat. 26 


"Summer grape" in Tennessee, Virginia, Georgia, etc.3; "Pigeon grape" in 
New Jersey; "Winter grape" in New York. 
Plant: Me@ium to tall, climbing 20 to 50 feet; branches somewhat tapering; ) 
tips quite naked, that is, not enveloped in slowly opening leaves, as in V. vulpine, 
Roots: Little fibrous, rather hard, oenetrating, transversely wrinkled; in 
one year seedlings enlarging downward from collar. 
Wood: Cylindrical, rusty wooly when young, becoming smooth, bright reddish 
brown on maturity, with little prunose bloom near the joints and frequently on 
vigorous growing shoots thinly beset with spinous pubesence as in ¥, labrusca; 
finely and evenly striated, hard and dense, less than V.Lincecumii; nodes enlarged 
under the bud, little enlarged on the opposite side; diaphragm 1/10" to 1/8" thick, 
biconcave: bud eAibose~conical, obtuse in young shoots, acute in mature, covered 
with reddish-brom scales with reddish wool et summit in expanding, medium, red 
rusty, open tip, pinkish; tendrils intermittent, once or sometimes twice forked, 
long, tomentose when young, persistent, strong; Internodes medium to long, 2" to 4" 
or even to 6" or more; pith medium, considerably enlarged at lower end, light brow. 
Leaves: Stipules small, 1/16" to 1/12" long, rather narrow, rusty wooly; 
petiole usually a little less than half as long ss width of blade, cylindrical, 
obscurely striated with narrow shallow groove above, obseured with pubesence or 
rusty wool, or both; blade 4" to 7" in length, similarto V, Lincecumii in general 
outline or more cordate; basal sinus deep acute inverted V-shaped to broad V shaped, 
approaching, sometinss lapping, generally short, obtuse or acute; often 5 rarely 
