Vitis girdiana

Coyote grape
Conservation status
	; Apparently Secure (NatureServe)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Vitales
Family:	Vitaceae
Genus:	Vitis
Species:	V. girdiana
Binomial name
	Vitis girdiana; Munson

Vitis girdiana is as species of wild grape known as the desert wild grape, coyote grape, or valley grape.^[1] It is native to southern California in the United States and to Baja California in Mexico.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Vitis girdiana is a woody vine with a coating of woolly hairs, especially on new growth. The woolly leaves are heart-shaped to kidney-shaped with toothed edges and sometimes shallow lobes. The inflorescence is a panicle of unisexual flowers. The fruit is a spherical black grape usually not more than 8 millimeters wide.^[2]

It grows in canyon and streambank habitat in hills and mountains of the region.^[2]

Uses

Various

Cahuilla used it fresh, cooked, or dried into raisins, and made it into wine.^[7]

Gallery

References

^ ^a ^b "Vitis girdiana". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 16 December 2017.
^ ^a ^b ^c Vitis girdiana. The Jepson Manual.
^ Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map
^ Calflora taxon report, University of California @ Berkeley
^ Hedges, Ken (1986). "Santa Ysabel Ethnobotany". Ethnic Technology Notes (20). San Diego Museum of Man: 43.
^ Sparkman, Philip Stedman (7 August 1908). "The Culture of the Luiseño Indians" (PDF). University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology. 8 (4). Berkeley University Press: 231. Vitaceae. Grape-vine Family. Vitis giridiana. Makwit. Wild grape-vine. The fruit is cooked and used for food.
OCLC 724036
.

External links

"Vitis girdiana Munson". United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 20 July 2020.

"Valley Grape". Native American Ethnobotany Database. Retrieved 20 July 2020.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Vitis girdiana.

Flora of North America: Vitis girdiana

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Vitis (grape) species
Grape (vitis) species

V. acerifolia,

V. adenoclada,

V. aestivalis,

V. amurensis,

V. × andersonii,

V. arizonica,

V. balansana,

V. barbata
,

V. bashanica,

V. bellula,

V. berlandieri,

V. betulifolia,

V. biformis,

V. blancoi,

V. bloodworthiana,

V. bourgaeana,

V. × bourquina,

V. bryoniifolia,

V. californica,

V. × champinii,

V. chunganensis,

V. chungii,

V. cinerea,

V. coignetiae,

V. davidii,

V. × doaniana,

V. erythrophylla,

V. fengqinensis,

V. ficifolia,

V. flexuosa,

V. girdiana,

V. hancockii,

V. heyneana,

V. hui,

V. jacquemontii,

V. jaegeriana,

V. jinggangensis,

V. Kelungensis,

V. labrusca,

V. lanceolatifoliosa,

V. lincecumii
,

V. longquanensis,

V. luochengensis,

V. menghaiensis,

V. mengziensis,

V. monticola,

V. mustangensis,

V. nesbittiana,

V. × novae-angliae,

V. palmata,

V. peninsularis,

V. piasezkii,

V. pilosonerva,

V. popenoei,

V. pseudoreticulata,

V. retordii,

V. riparia,

V. romanetii,

V. rotundifolia,

V. rupestris,

V. ruyuanensis,

V. shenxiensis,

V. shuttleworthii,

V. silvestrii,

V. sinocinerea,

V. × slavinii,

V. tiliifolia,

V. treleasei,

V. tsoii,

V. vinifera,

V. vulpina,

V. wenchouensis,

V. wilsoniae,

V. wuhanensis,

V. xunyangensis,

V. Yeshanensis,

V. yunnanensis,

V. zhejiang-adstricta

Taxon identifiers
Vitis girdiana

Wikidata: Q3017680

Wikispecies: Vitis girdiana

BioLib: 193869

BOLD: 673746

Calflora: 8322

EoL: 582354

EPPO: VITGI

FNA: 250101310

GBIF: 5372407

GRIN: 311848

iNaturalist: 64104

IPNI: 266086-2

IRMNG: 11113337

ITIS: 28617

NatureServe: 2.146835

NCBI: 754098

Open Tree of Life: 903689

Plant List: tro-34000203

PLANTS: VIGI2

POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:68730-1

Tropicos: 34000203

WFO: wfo-0001145338

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[grin-1] "Vitis girdiana". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 16 December 2017.

[jeps-2] Vitis girdiana. The Jepson Manual.

[3] Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map

[4] Calflora taxon report, University of California @ Berkeley

[5] Hedges, Ken (1986). "Santa Ysabel Ethnobotany". Ethnic Technology Notes (20). San Diego Museum of Man: 43.

[6] Sparkman, Philip Stedman (7 August 1908). "The Culture of the Luiseño Indians" (PDF). University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology. 8 (4). Berkeley University Press: 231. Vitaceae. Grape-vine Family. Vitis giridiana. Makwit. Wild grape-vine. The fruit is cooked and used for food.

[7] OCLC 724036
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