ViTIS CALTFORNICA 
Vitis californica Tall climber, leaves roundish to reniform, cordate, pubescent 
or floccose underneath, some of them &-5-lobed but commoniy not so; flowers very 
fragrant; fruit about 1/8 inch in diameter, purple and very glsucous. California. 
Hortus Second, 1941 


Vitis californica, Bentham, Bot. Sulp. 10 
Synonym: 
Vitis Caribaga, Hook and Arn. Bot., Beechey, 227 
"North California Grape® 
Plant: Climbing moderately, or vigorously, as seen by the writer in Santa : 
Rosa and Napa Valleys at Chico and at Redding in Sacramento Valley, also at Grantks | 
Pass, Rogue River, Oregons; branches tapering; growing tips little elevated in 
expanding leaves; often the vines are seen completely enveloping smsll trees with 
& dense canopy of leves. 
Rooter: Fibrous, rather soft, transversely wrinkled. 

Wood: When young reddish or pale green, angled and somewhat covered with long 
whitish hairs, becoming floccose and remaining into the winter, or in Eldorado 
County specimens, covered with short brown pubescence, similar to Y. cinerea; } 
when meture, browning or grayish, finely striated, soft, sections] view circular ; 
or often oval, rays distinct, pores open; nodes large and a little bent; die- : 
phragm neerly plene, medium thin; bark the second year easily loocening in : 
fibrous plates, on old wood finely striately checked and persistent as in V. cinerea 
buds small, sub-pyramidsl, ovold or acute, covered with whitish or brominh wool i 
at summit, when opening in spring grayish violet or nearly white, becoming greenish-_ 
violet; tendrils mostly once forked, sometimes twice, 8" to 5" to fork, inter- 
mittent, wooly when young, persistent,internodes medium in length, 3" to 6" or 
more, variable in same branchs pith large, light brown, abruptly and broadly ter~ , 
minating above, nerrow and gradually terminating below the diaphragm, especially 
so in Sierra Nevada Mountain specimens. | 
Leaves: Stipules small to medium, cordate, aembranaceous, hairy; petéble | 
generally about half as long as blade is wide, narrowly grooved on upper side, 
distinctly striateds thinly covered with white cottony hatrs and velvety pubescence, — 
color violet or crimson; blade medium to large, varies in sizTe from 2* to 4" in 
length by 3" to 5* or more in widths; shape broa cordate or nearly reniform | 
basal sinus acute or often obtuse, rounded; basel lobes more or less closed, often 7 
lapping; outline usually entire or 3 or rarely 5 shallow, cbtuse lobes, with 
nerrow rounded sinuses; summit rounded, or obtuse pointed, teeth medium broad, | 
nearl® regular, ah » convex or with margins nearly straight, obtuse or right- 
angle@, not mucronate;.venation from generally 6 pairs of not quite opposite, 
very little elevated, pubescent ribs; pubescent tufts in forks, space between 
ribs thinly or not at all felted with silky hairs; upper face at first covered 
with whitish silky hairs, but soon becoming smooth; at maturity when about & t 
shed, the leaves often change to bright orange red or scarlet. Leaves °™ ***® 
year not lobed. . 
