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Vitis rupestris
Also called Beach grape, Bush grape, Currant grape, July grape, Mountain grape, Rock grape, Sugar grape
Sand grape (Vitis rupestris) is a bushy, self-supporting native grape of the central and eastern United States, found on rocky riverbanks and streambanks. It is valued mainly as a breeding parent and rootstock, and it needs full sun and good drainage to grow well.
Vitis rupestris is a species of grape native to the United States that is known by many common names including July, Coon, 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 natural distribution of Vitis rupestris is concentrated in the Ozark Hills of Missouri and Arkansas. The species is less common in scattered populations east as far as Pennsylvania and southwest into Oklahoma and Texas. There are a few reports of the species occurring in the San Francisco Bay area of California, but these are most likely escapes from cultivation.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Vitis rupestris 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.
