Vitis rotundifolia
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Vitis rotundifolia, or muscadine or swamp grape, is a grapevine species native to the southeastern and south-central United States. The growth range extends from Florida to New Jersey coast, and west
Vitis rotundifolia
North Carolina muscadine grapes
Some muscadines in a bowl; the green grapes are scuppernongs.
The wild progenitor of the muscadine grape still grows freely in the southeastern United States, such as near Indiantown, South Carolina.
Amphion floridensis
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Amphion floridensis, the Nessus sphinx, is a day-flying moth of the family Sphingidae. The species was described by Pieter Cramer in 1777, and renamed in 1920. It is the only member of the genus Amphi
Vitis rotundifolia
…muscadine provides wildlife habitat as shelter, browse, and food for many birds and animals. It is also a larval host for the Nessus Sphinx Moth (Amphion floridensis) and the Mournful Sphinx Moth (Enyo lugubris). Although in the same genus Vitis with the other grapevine species, the muscadine species belongs to a…
Amphion floridensis Nessus Sphinx Moth
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Female underside
Male