Muscadine grape : Vitis rotundifolia


Kingdom : Plantae
   Phylum : Magnoliophyta
          Class : Magnoliopsida
               Order : Rhmnales
                    Family : Vitaceae
                         Genus : Vitis
                              Species : rotundifolia Michx

Common name: Muscadine grape

Description:

High climbing woody vine, conspicuous simple tendrils, bark close, not exfoliating, with numerous small lenticels, young branches angled.
Muscadine grape, Photo by David Byres Leaves simple, alternate, suborbicular to widely ovate, to 8 cm long and wide, glabrate or glabrous with broad blunt teeth, base cordate, petiole slender and about as long as leaf.

Separate male and female plants.

Inflorescence a panicle, to 5 cm long, calyx flat, round, usually without lobes, petals 5, .5-2.5 mm long, cohering at the summit, separating at the base, falling after opening.

Fruit a dark purple berry, few fruits per inflorescence, berry 1-2 cm in diameter; seeds about 6 mm long.

Habitat:

Low woods, upland woods, sand dunes

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