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§1 Plant
Vitis palmata Vahl
vernacular catbird grape — species · Vitaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Vine
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Vitaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Vitis
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 173 counties across 13 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- Medium
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- Low
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- High
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -13 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 165 min.
- Precipitation
- 32–55 in/yr
- pH range
- 5.5–7
- Root depth
- 16 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Multiple Stem
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 30 ft
- Foliage texture
- Fine
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- 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
- High
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- Yes
- Seeds / lb
- 14,000
- Propagation
- seed, cuttings, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Medium
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- Yes
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 173 counties across 13 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 30 N ▾
- Arkansas 05001
- Ashley 05003
- Bradley 05011
- Chicot 05017
- Clark 05019
- Clay 05021
- Conway 05029
- Craighead 05031
- Crittenden 05035
- Drew 05043
- Faulkner 05045
- Franklin 05047
- Garland 05051
- Hempstead 05057
- Hot Spring 05059
- Jefferson 05069
- Johnson 05071
- Lee 05077
- Lincoln 05079
- Lonoke 05085
- Miller 05091
- Mississippi 05093
- Ouachita 05103
- Phillips 05107
- Pope 05115
- Pulaski 05119
- Sebastian 05131
- St. Francis 05123
- Union 05139
- Washington 05143
Florida view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 22 N ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 33 N ▾
- Allen 22003
- Avoyelles 22009
- Bienville 22013
- Caddo 22017
- Caldwell 22021
- Catahoula 22025
- Claiborne 22027
- Concordia 22029
- De Soto 22031
- East Carroll 22035
- Evangeline 22039
- Franklin 22041
- Grant 22043
- Iberia 22045
- LaSalle 22059
- Lincoln 22061
- Madison 22065
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Ouachita 22073
- Rapides 22079
- Red River 22081
- Richland 22083
- St. Mary 22101
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tensas 22107
- Union 22111
- Washington 22117
- Webster 22119
- West Baton Rouge 22121
- West Carroll 22123
- West Feliciana 22125
- Winn 22127
Mississippi view state ↗ 17 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 17 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 12 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/VIPA7 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5372414 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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