Vitis aestivalis
 |
 |
USDA/NRCS |
USDA/NRCS |
| Botanical name: | Vitis aestivalis |
| Common name: | summer grape |
| Group: | dicot |
| Family: | Vitaceae |
| Growth type: | vine |
| Duration: | perennial |
| Origin: | native |
| Plant height: | high climbing vine |
| Foliage: | leaves broad, heart shaped; high climbing vine |
| Flower: | small, greenish |
| Flowering time: | blooms late May to July; fruits early September to October |
| Habitat: | open, usually moist shaded ground of woods, edges, streamsides, roadsides |
| Range in New Jersey: | statewide but rare in the Pine barrens |
| Heritage ranking, if any: | n/a |
| Distribution: |  |
| Misc. | Similar to V. labrusca but there are not tendrils with every leaf; leaves are often 3 to 5 lobes rather than the 3 of labrusca, and are more deeply lobed, light wool beneath rather than heavy like labrusca. |