Ampelopsis cordata

Michaux

Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 159. 1803.

Common names: Raccoon or false grape
IllustratedEndemic
Synonyms: Vitis indivisa Willd.
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 12. Treatment on page 19.

Lianas, moderately high climbing. Branchlets green, glabrous. Leaves simple; petiole ± equaling blade; blade ovate, 5–12 × 4–9 cm, usually unlobed, sometimes shallowly 3-shouldered, base truncate to subcordate, margins coarsely and irregularly serrate, apex acute to acuminate, surfaces glabrous or abaxial surface sparsely puberulent. Inflorescences ± equaling to longer than leaves. Flowers yellowish green. Berries ripening from green to orange, rose, purple and finally blue, subglobose, 6–10 mm diam. 2n = 40.


Phenology: Flowering late Apr–Jun; fruiting Jul–Sep.
Habitat: Stream and riverbanks, floodplain forests, wet woodland borders, lowland thickets, fencerows.
Elevation: 0–1000 m.

Distribution

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Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kans., Ky., La., Md., Miss., Mo., Nebr., N.C., Ohio, Okla., S.C., Tenn., Tex., Va., W.Va.

Discussion

Reports of Ampelopsis cordata from Connecticut (for example, G. C. Tucker 1995) are based on misidentified material of A. aconitifolia.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

"connate" is not a number.

... more about "Ampelopsis cordata"
acute +  and acuminate +
Michael O. Moore† +  and Jun Wen +
Michaux +
adherent +
truncate;subcordate +
purple and finally blue +, rose +, green +  and orange +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
subglobose +
3-shouldered +
5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br /> (12 cm120 mm <br />0.12 m <br />) +
unlobed +  and ovate +
4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br /> (9 cm90 mm <br />0.09 m <br />) +
undulate +  and saucer--shaped +
Raccoon or false grape +
leaf-opposed +
corymblike +
Ala. +, Ark. +, Fla. +, Ga. +, Ill. +, Ind. +, Iowa +, Kans. +, Ky. +, La. +, Md. +, Miss. +, Mo. +, Nebr. +, N.C. +, Ohio +, Okla. +, S.C. +, Tenn. +, Tex. +, Va. +  and W.Va. +
0–1000 m. +
yellowish green +
Stream and riverbanks, floodplain forests, wet woodland borders, lowland thickets, fencerows. +
more or less equaling to longer +
pinnate +  and palmate +
crenate +  and serrate +
free +  and adnate +
intrastaminal +
lobed +  and cup-shaped +
anatropous +  and apotropous +
distinct +
Flowering late Apr–Jun +  and fruiting Jul–Sep. +
2[-3]-carpellate +
Fl. Bor.-Amer. +
Illustrated +  and Endemic +
stalked +  and multicellular +
elongate +  and cylindric +
Vitis indivisa +
Ampelopsis cordata +
Ampelopsis +
species +
liana +  and climbing +