Features of Vitis aestivalis/Pegeon/Summer Grapes:

General:
Stems:
• Vine with mature bark shredding on older stems, lenticels absent or inconspicuous
• Tendrils forked, a tendril or inflorescence present at only 2 consecutive nodes
• Branches of the season terete, glabrous with cobwebby hairs, pith brown, interrupted at nodes; nodes frequently glaucous
Leaves:
• Cordate, shallowly to deeply 3-5 lobed, simple, crenate to dentate, deciduous
• Mature leaves somewhat glaucous beneath, with some whitish to reddish cobwebby hairs
Fruit:
• Berries 0.6-1.2cm in diameter, purple to black
Growing Information:
• Coastal Plains, stream banks, and low woods

All Definitions were taken from: Trees of the Southeastern United States by: Wilbur H. Duncan and Marion B. Duncan

All Descriptions were taken from: Native Shrubs and Woody Vines of the Southeast by: Leonard E. Foote and Samuel B. Jones, Jr.