Fox Grape [1]
Fox Grape
[4]Fox grape (Vitis labrusca) thrives in North Carolina's piedmont [5] and mountain [6] regions. One variety of fox grape, the Catawba, was apparently first found along the banks of Cane Creek south of Swannanoa in Buncombe County [7]. Catawba wine also became a popular antebellum spirit well outside the South, fortifying Harriet Beecher Stowe [8] in her literary campaign against slavery.
Image Credit:
Hough, Cody. "Michigan Wild Grapes (vitis labrusca)." Photograph. October 7, 2007. Wikimedia Commons. CC By-SA 3.0. https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Vitis_labrusca#/media/File:Wild_Grapes.JPG [4]
1 January 2006 | Simpson, Bland