Plant # 75
Collectors Name: Lee W. McDowell
Date: 04 August 06
Ft Meade Recreation Area, Northern Black Hills,
South Dakota
Lakota Name: “cuwi yapehe iyuwi” (wood used to wind around vine
or tangled vine)
“cuwi yapehe” (the grape fruit)
Common English Name: River Grape, Riverbank Grape, Frost Grape
Botanical Name: Vitis riparia, Vitis vulpine
Native Range: Streams and drainages
Season of Growth: Cool Season woody ornamental
Plant Family: Vitaceae, Grape
Common Use:
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Fruits eaten fresh or dried
References:
Larson, Gary E., James R. Johnson. 1999. Plants of the Black Hills and Bear Lodge Mountains.
South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota. (p. 574)
Rogers, Dilwyn J 1980 Lakota Names and Traditional Uses of Native Plants by Sicangu (Brule)
People in the Rosebud Area, South Dakota. St. Francis, SD. Rosebud Educational Society (p. 61
#293)
Range Plant ID Form r1001
Edited by Leslie Rae Henry
Agriculture & Natural Resource Department
Oglala Lakota College
Piya Wiconi Road, PO Box 490
Kyle, SD 57752