Index / Search / Ampelopsis cordata
§1 Plant
Ampelopsis cordata Michx.
vernacular heartleaf peppervine — species · Vitaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Vine
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Vitaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Ampelopsis
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 152 counties across 7 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- Low
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- Medium
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- Low
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -8 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 145 min.
- Precipitation
- 32–60 in/yr
- pH range
- 5.2–7.4
- Root depth
- 12 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Crown
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 2 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- White
- Fruit colour
- Black
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Late Spring
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Spring
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Propagation
- seed, cuttings, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- Nursery stock
- Yes
- Browse palatability
- Medium
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 152 counties across 7 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 30 N ▾
- Autauga 01001
- Baldwin 01003
- Bibb 01007
- Blount 01009
- Bullock 01011
- Calhoun 01015
- Dallas 01047
- Elmore 01051
- Etowah 01055
- Franklin 01059
- Greene 01063
- Hale 01065
- Jackson 01071
- Jefferson 01073
- Lauderdale 01077
- Lawrence 01079
- Limestone 01083
- Madison 01089
- Marengo 01091
- Mobile 01097
- Monroe 01099
- Montgomery 01101
- Pickens 01107
- Shelby 01117
- St. Clair 01115
- Sumter 01119
- Tuscaloosa 01125
- Washington 01129
- Wilcox 01131
- Winston 01133
Arkansas view state ↗ 42 N ▾
- Ashley 05003
- Baxter 05005
- Benton 05007
- Boone 05009
- Carroll 05015
- Chicot 05017
- Clay 05021
- Crittenden 05035
- Cross 05037
- Drew 05043
- Franklin 05047
- Fulton 05049
- Garland 05051
- Hempstead 05057
- Howard 05061
- Independence 05063
- Izard 05065
- Jefferson 05069
- Johnson 05071
- Lawrence 05075
- Lee 05077
- Lonoke 05085
- Madison 05087
- Marion 05089
- Mississippi 05093
- Newton 05101
- Perry 05105
- Phillips 05107
- Pope 05115
- Pulaski 05119
- Randolph 05121
- Saline 05125
- Searcy 05129
- Sevier 05133
- Sharp 05135
- St. Francis 05123
- Stone 05137
- Union 05139
- Van Buren 05141
- Washington 05143
- White 05145
- Yell 05149
Florida view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 59 N ▾
- Allen 21003
- Anderson 21005
- Ballard 21007
- Barren 21009
- Bell 21013
- Boone 21015
- Boyd 21019
- Bracken 21023
- Breckinridge 21027
- Butler 21031
- Calloway 21035
- Carlisle 21039
- Casey 21045
- Christian 21047
- Clark 21049
- Clinton 21053
- Cumberland 21057
- Estill 21065
- Fayette 21067
- Floyd 21071
- Franklin 21073
- Fulton 21075
- Garrard 21079
- Greenup 21089
- Hardin 21093
- Harrison 21097
- Henderson 21101
- Henry 21103
- Hickman 21105
- Jackson 21109
- Jefferson 21111
- Jessamine 21113
- Kenton 21117
- Lewis 21135
- Livingston 21139
- Madison 21151
- Marion 21155
- Mason 21161
- McCracken 21145
- McCreary 21147
- McLean 21149
- Meade 21163
- Metcalfe 21169
- Montgomery 21173
- Muhlenberg 21177
- Nelson 21179
- Ohio 21183
- Oldham 21185
- Owen 21187
- Pendleton 21191
- Perry 21193
- Powell 21197
- Robertson 21201
- Spencer 21215
- Trigg 21221
- Warren 21227
- Washington 21229
- Webster 21233
- Woodford 21239
Virginia view state ↗ 6 N ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 2 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/AMCO2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3039183 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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