Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Vitales > Vitaceae > Vitis > Vitis rupestris

Vitis rupestris (sand grape)

Synonyms: Vitis populifolia (heterotypic); Vitis rupestris f. dissecta; Vitis rupestris f. rupestris; Vitis rupestris var. dissecta (homotypic); Vitis vinifera var. rupestris (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

Vitis rupestris is a species of grape native to the United States that is known by many common names including July, sand, sugar, beach, bush, currant, ingar, rock, and mountain grape. It is used for breeding several French-American hybrids as well as many root stocks. The cultivar known as Rupestris St. George has been widely used in breeding and as a root stock; it is perhaps the best known.
View Wikipedia Record: Vitis rupestris

Attributes

Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Leaf Type [1]  Deciduous
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Pollinators [1]  Insects, Lepidoptera
Structure [1]  Vine
Usage [1]  Can be used as a rootstock for V. vinifera in areas where phylloxera is prevalent; A yellow dye is obtained from the fresh or dried leaves;
Height [1]  6.56 feet (2 m)
View Plants For A Future Record : Vitis rupestris

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Hist. Park National Historical Park V 19586 Maryland, District of Columbia, United States
Harpers Ferry National Historical Park VI 715 West Virginia, United States
New River Gorge National River National River and Wild and Scenic Riverway V 55591 West Virginia, United States

Predators

Daktulosphaira vitifoliae (grape phylloxera)[3]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 3Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0