Vitis acerifoliaRaf.

mapleleaf grape

WFO wfo-0001145333 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Vitis acerifolia, photographed by Catherine C. Galley
fig. a Catherine C. Galley, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-08-05 / obs. 156530235
Vitis acerifolia, photographed by Catherine C. Galley
fig. b Catherine C. Galley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 152626388
Vitis acerifolia, photographed by Catherine C. Galley
fig. c Catherine C. Galley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 127353289
Vitis acerifolia, photographed by Reid Hardin
fig. d Reid Hardin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 121717518
Vitis acerifolia, photographed by Catherine C. Galley
fig. e Catherine C. Galley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 95424520
Vitis acerifolia, photographed by Annika Lindqvist
fig. f Annika Lindqvist, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 78208557
Vitis acerifolia, photographed by Steve Taylor
fig. g Steve Taylor, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 26450001
Vitis acerifolia, photographed by Catherine C. Galley
fig. h Catherine C. Galley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 153604401

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Native range 5 botanical countries

Regions where Vitis acerifolia is native: Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas ColoradoKansasNew MexicoOklahomaTexas
Native distribution of Vitis acerifolia, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Colorado COL NORTHERN AMERICA
Kansas KAN
New Mexico NWM
Oklahoma OKL
Texas TEX

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 8 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Vitis cordifolia var. solonis Planch.
  • Vitis longii W.R.Prince
  • Vitis longii var. microsperma (Munson) L.H.Bailey
  • Vitis novomexicana Lemmon ex Munson
  • Vitis nuevomexicana Lemmon ex Munson
  • Vitis rubra var. solonia Planch.
  • Vitis solonis (Planch.) Engelm. ex Millardet
  • Vitis solonis var. microsperma Munson

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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