Vitis L.

First published in Sp. Pl.: 202 (1753)
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is Temp. Northern Hemisphere to Tropical Mountains.

Distribution

Doubtfully present in:

French Guiana

Native to:

Afghanistan, Alabama, Albania, Amur, Arizona, Arkansas, Assam, Austria, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belize, Bulgaria, California, Cambodia, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Christmas I., Colombia, Colorado, Connecticut, Corse, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cyprus, Czechia-Slovakia, Delaware, District of Columbia, Dominican Republic, East Himalaya, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Hainan, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Illinois, India, Indiana, Inner Mongolia, Iowa, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jawa, Kansas, Kentucky, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krym, Kuril Is., Laos, Lebanon-Syria, Leeward Is., Lesser Sunda Is., Louisiana, Maine, Manchuria, Manitoba, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nebraska, Nepal, Nevada, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Nicaragua, North Carolina, North Caucasus, North Dakota, Nova Scotia, NW. Balkan Pen., Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Pakistan, Palestine, Panamá, Pennsylvania, Philippines, Primorye, Puerto Rico, Québec, Rhode I., Romania, Sakhalin, Sardegna, Sicilia, South Carolina, South Dakota, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Tennessee, Texas, Thailand, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Turkmenistan, Türkiye, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine, Utah, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vermont, Vietnam, Virginia, West Himalaya, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming

Introduced into:

Algeria, Angola, Argentina Northeast, Azores, Baleares, Baltic States, Belgium, British Columbia, Canary Is., Cape Verde, Caroline Is., Chad, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, Easter Is., Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gulf of Guinea Is., Idaho, Kazakhstan, Kriti, Libya, Madeira, Marianas, Morocco, New Zealand North, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Saskatchewan, South European Russia, Spain, Trinidad-Tobago, Tunisia, Washington

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Accepted Species

Classification

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POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R., Nic Lughadha, E., Black, N., Turner, R. & Paton, A. (2021). The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00997-6. Scientific Data 8: 215.

Sources

  • EBC Common Names

    • Common Names from Kew's Economic Botany Collection https://www.kew.org/science/collections-and-resources/collections/economic-botany-collection
  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images