Grapes -- Varieties -- United States; Viticulture -- United States
_A._ Skin of mature berry separating freely from the pulp.
_B._ Nodes without diaphragms; tendrils simple.
1. _V. rotundifolia._
2. _V. Munsoniana._
_BB._ Nodes with diaphragms; tendrils forked.
_C._ Leaves and shoots glabrous at maturity and without
bloom; tendrils intermittent.
_D._ Leaves thin, light, bright green, generally glabrous
below at maturity except perhaps in the axils of the
veins with a long or at least a prominent point and
usually long and sharp teeth or the edge even-jagged.
_E._ Leaves broader than long; petiolar sinus usually wide
and shallow.
3. _V. rupestris._
_EE._ Leaves ovate in outline; petiolar sinus usually
medium to narrow.
4. _V. vulpina._
_DD._ Leaves thick, dull colored or grayish-green, often
holding some close, dull pubescence below at maturity,
shoots and leaves nearly always more or less pubescent
when young; the teeth mostly short.
5. _V. cordifolia._
6. _V. Berlandieri._
_CC._ Leaves rusty or white tomentose or glaucous blue below,
thick or at least firm.
_D._ Leaves flocculent or cobwebby or glaucous below when
fully grown.
7. _V. aestivalis._
8. _V. bicolor._
_DD._ Leaves densely tomentose or felt-like beneath
throughout the season; covering white or rusty white.
_E._ Tendrils intermittent.
9. _V. candicans._
_EE._ Tendrils mostly continuous.
10. _V. Labrusca._
_AA._ Skin and pulp of mature berry cohering. (Old World.)
11. _V. vinifera._
1. _Vitis rotundifolia_, Michx. Muscadine Grape. Bull Grape. Bullet
Grape. Bushy Grape. Bullace Grape. Scuppernong. Southern Fox Grape.
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