Muscadinia rotundifolia (Michx.) Small var. rotundifolia

Muscadine; Scuppernong

Vine

Perennial

Vascular

Muscadine is a native perennial woody vine in the Grape family (Vitaceae). It occurs throughout Alabama. Muscadine occurs in floodplain forests along rivers, in upland woods, and along fence rows and forest edges. It is a high climbing woody vine climbing by un-branched tendrils. The bark is gray in color and tight on young stems. On older stems, it peels in long strips. The pith is continuous through the nodes. Leaves are alternate, petiolate, deciduous, cordate to reniform in outline, with toothed margins. The leaves are glabrous above and glabrous below or with hairs along the veins or in the axils of the veins. Flowers are produced in panicles from the axils of the leaves. The flowers are greenish-yellow in color and not showy. The fruit is a leathery berry with 1-4 seed. Scuppernong is a variety of Muscadine with greenish or bronze colored fruit. It was discovered along the Scuppernong River in Tyrell County, North Carolina. Both varieties are widely cultivated. Muscadine fruit are edible and are gathered by locals for jelly and wine or eaten fresh. They are also consumed by a variety of wildlife from birds to mammals.—A. Diamond.

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Native

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