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Vitis californica
Also called North California Grape, Pacific Grape, California Grape
Vitis californica is a fast-growing, deciduous wild grape vine native to western North America, usually found climbing over other plants or sprawling along streams and canyons. It thrives in damp soil and is best grown where it can climb or ramble freely.
Vitis californica, with common names California wild grape, Northern California grape, and Pacific grape, is a wild grape species native to western North America.
The species is widespread across much of California as well as southwestern Oregon. It is distributed along the Coast Ranges from Douglas County, Oregon, south to San Luis Obispo County, California; in the Klamath Mountains, the Cascade Range, and the Sierra Nevada from Siskiyou to Kern counties, California; and in the Central Valley.
Bunches of small and often sour but edible purple grapes hang from the vines in autumn, which can be made into wine or jelly. The grapes provide an important food source for a variety of wild animals, especially birds, and the foliage provides thick cover.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Vitis californica by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
