Vitis mustangensis
(Mustang Grape)
Vitis mustangensis, Pedernales Falls State Park, Blanco Co. 7350/7369
Vitis mustangensis, Pedernales Falls State Park, Blanco Co. 7281/7300
Vitis mustangensis, McKinney Falls State Park, Travis Co. 1504
Vitis mustangensis, McKinney Falls State Park, Travis Co. 1499
Vitis mustangensis, Bastrop State Park, Bastrop Co. 6937
Vitis mustangensis, Pedernales Falls State Park, Blanco Co. 7421
| Scientific Name | Vitis mustangensis | USDA PLANTS Symbol | VIMU2 |
| Common Name | Mustang Grape | ITIS Taxonomic Serial No. | 28621 |
| Family | Vitaceae (Grape) | SEINet Reference |
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| Description | Habitat: Various soil types; stream bottoms, woodland edges, fencerows, thickets, lowland woods, disturbed areas. Plant: Vigorous high-climbing vine, sparsely branched; older bark exfoliating in shreds and young branchlets hairy (white-tomentose); tendrils along length of branchlets. Leaves: Broadly cordate to nearly reniform, 2-3/8 to 5-1/2 inches long and about as wide; petioles 1/2 to 3/4 as long as blades; usually unlobed but sometimes deeply 3 to 5 lobed with pointed tips; new leaves covered with small white hairs (tomentose), upper surface of older leaves usually glossy or floccose, lower surfaces white-tomentose. Inflorescence: Thyrse 2 to 4-3/4 inches long opposite a leaf; many very small flowers with 5 green petals, 5 protruding stamens with cream-yellow anthers and bright yellow stigma. Bloom Period: April to June. Fruit: Fruiting August to September; grape about 1/2-inch diameter; tough, purple-black to light-colored skin; generally bad-tasting. References: "Manual of the Vascular Plants of Texas" by Correll and Johnston and Flora of North America. |
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Texas Status: Native |
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