Vitis vinifera

Wine grape, Wine Grape

Family: Vitaceae · Type: shrub · Not Native

Wine grape is a naturalized shrub found in California's Great Valley and Central Western regions in abandoned fields and roadsides at elevations below 1,000 meters. Flowering from May to June, this plant produces flowers that develop into purple to blue-black fruits more than 8 millimeters wide. Growing with hairy stems that become glabrous with age, it develops nodal partitions 3 to 5 millimeters thick. Its leaves are cordate to kidney-shaped, often with 3 to 5 lobes, generally serrate, and can be glabrous or slightly hairy. The fruit is spheric to ovoid, with a skin that adheres closely to the pulp, making it distinctive for winemaking and cultivation.

Habitat: Abandoned fields, roadsides

Bloom period: May-Jun

Elevation: < 1000 m

Bioregions: GV, CW

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.