A vigorous deciduous climber, with round shoots free from down, but usually very glaucous, a tendril missing from every third joint. Leaves 4 to 12 in. wide and long, three- or five-lobed, irregularly and shallowly toothed, usually glabrous on both surfaces, and vividly blue-white beneath. In other respects this vine is similar to V. aestivalis, to which it is most nearly allied. It is a native of the eastern and central United States, and in cultivation in Britain makes a luxuriant climber. Visitors to Goat Island, Niagara Falls, will have noticed its abundance there, associating with Celastrus scandens and other climbers in the production of a beautiful and luxuriant effect; this vine is conspicuous in the blue-white young shoots and under-surface of the leaves, to which the popular name refers.
Vitis argentifolia Munson
Modern name
Vitis aestivalis var. argentifolia (Munson ex L.H. Bailey) Fernald
Synonyms
?V. bicolor Leconte, not Raf.; V. aestivalis var. argentifolia (Munson) Fern.Genus
Other species in the genus
- Vitis aestivalis Michx.
- Vitis amurensis Rupr.
- Vitis californica Benth.
- Vitis candicans Engelm.
- Vitis coignetiae Pulliat Ex Planch.
- Vitis cordifolia Michx.
- Vitis davidii (Carr.) Foëx
- Vitis flexuosa Thunb.
- Vitis labrusca L.
- Vitis monticola Buckl.
- Vitis piasezkii Maxim.
- Vitis quinquangularis Rehd.
- Vitis riparia Michx.
- Vitis romanetii A. David ex Foëx
- Vitis rotundifolia Michx.
- Vitis rupestris Scheele
- Vitis thunbergii Sieb. & Zucc.
- Vitis vinifera L.
- Vitis wilsoniae Veitch ex Gard. Chron.