
VITIS BERLANDIERI 
V. berlandieri Spanish Grape. Stocky, moderately climbing: leaves cordate, 
often as broad as long, angled or 3-lobed toward apex, shining above and at maturity 
pubescent on veins underneath: fruit 1/3 inch or less in diameter, purple. South- 
west Texas and Mexico. 
--- Hortus Second, 1941 
Vitis berlandieri, Planchon. Fromspecimens collected by Berlandier in Western 
Texas about 1883. } 
Synonyms : 
NV. aestivalis monticola, var. Engelm. in Am. Nat., 2, p.321 
V.. aestivalis, var. Gray, Pl. Wright, 1, p. 32 
V. monticola, ingelm. Bushbery Cat. p.15, 1883 
V. monticola, Millardet, Especes de Vignes, pp 199-204, 1885 
"Little Mountain Grape", "Fall Grape", "Winter Grape", "Spanish Grape". 
Plant: Rather stocky, with much the same habit as V. cinerea though more 
tapering and branched, climbing somewhat less, yet along streams going to tops of 
large trees, foliage of a bright, dark lively green color, and shining in light, 
its chief distinction from V. cinerea. 
Roots: Little branching, wrinkled transversely, hard, deeply penetrating. 
Wood; When young distinctly angled as in V. cinerea, covered with dull - 
ashy pubescence and thin cottony hairs, the pubescence remaining through the firstpg 
year, giving the dull brown, finely striated bark beneath an ashy appearance; wood 
rather soft; sectional view of annual wood porous, rays distinct, almost identical 
in structare and hardness with V. cinerea; nodes slightly bulged, much bent; dia- 
phragm 1/12" to 1/10" in thickness, nearly plane; buds usually small and conical, 
sub-triangled, sometimes globose and cottony — like tip, unfolding, pinkish-crimso 
or salmon, tip closed; tendrils generally once, often twice forked, long, at first 
cottomy and pubescent, then smooth, striated, red or green, persistent; inter nodes 
usually short, 2" to 4" long, often more, sometimes 6" or 7"; pith small, enlarged 
at lower end, light brown or nearly white. 

Leaves: Stipules very small; petiole in length about 4 the width of blade, 
distinctly striated, groove very narrow and shallow, almost wanting, covered with 
a thin ashy cotton or closelyset with a short velvety pubes@ence, or both, reddish 
or green, set at right or obtuse angle witifear Blade mostly 2" to 4" wide, 
sometimes 5" or 6", the length of the blade’ from insertion of petiole to summit, 
less by about 1/5 than its width; circular, slightly cupped toward upper face with 
margin bent back a little,- less so than V. srizonicas; basal sinus usually 
inverted U-shaped, but also often inverted V-shaped, or acute at insertion of petiole) 
shoulders usually not very prominent, apex short, acutely tapering; teeth short, 
small, convex with minute mucron;venation from the usually 6, sometimes 7 pairs 
of oppogite, rather prominent ribs, covered with short, velvety pubescence; 
(see over) 
