It is found chiefly in northwest Texas but it ranges from Oklahoma to beyond the Pecos River in New Mexico. It is considered by Bailey and Viala to be a probable hybrid with _Vitis candicans_ as one of the parents. Doaniana is exceedingly hardy, withstanding great cold as well as great heat. It apparently prefers rather light soils as it is indigenous to sandbanks along rivers and the beds of sandy ravines.
Munson states that in cultivation it does well in any but very limy soils. The fruit is of comparatively good quality but the skin possesses some of the pungency of Candicans. The berries are quite persistent, hanging to the pedicel some time after ripe. The vines are not productive. The character of the must is apparently unknown. The roots are hard, penetrate deeply into the soil, and are resistant to phylloxera though somewhat variable in this respect. Doaniana grows readily from cuttings and grafts well in the vineyard. The species blossoms with or just before Labrusca. It is of doubtful value to the southern grape-growers and is of no value in the North.
=1.= (?) Marshall, =1785=:165. V. VINIFERA AMERICANA; _American grape vine_. =2.= (?) Walter, =1788=:242. V. LABRUSCA. =3.= Michaux, =2=:230. 1803. =4.= Bartram, _Dom. Enc._, =5=:289. 1804. V. SYLVESTRIS; _V. occidentalis_; _Common Blue grape_; _Bunch grape_. =5.= Muhlenberg, =1813=:27. V. INTERMEDIA; _V. aestivalis_; _Summer grape_. =6.= Pursh, =1=:169. 1814. _V. vulpina_; _V. labrusca_; _Summer grape_. =7.= Nuttall, =1=:143. 1818. =8.= Elliott, =2=:688. 1824. =9.= Torrey, _Fl. of N. & M. Sta._, =1826=:121. =10.= Rafinesque, =1830=:9. V. BRACTEATA; _V. labrusca_; _V. aestivalis_; _Sour grape_. =11.= Prince, =1830=:199. _V. intermedia_; _V. sylvestris_; _V. occidentalis_; _Summer grape_; _Little grape_; _Bunch grape_; _Blue grape_. =12.= Torrey, _Fl. of N. Y._, =1=:146. 1843. _V. intermedia_; _Summer grape_. =13.= Darlington, =1853=:50. _Little grape_; _Summer grape_. =14.= Le Conte, _Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci._, =6=:272. 1853. V. ARANEOSUS. =15.= Ib., _Ib._, =6=:271. 1853. V. BRACTEATA; _V. aestivalis_; _Duck-shot grape_; _Swamp grape_. =16.= Buckley, _U. S. Pat. Off. Rpt._, =1861=:481, 482. _Frost grape_; _Chicken grape._ =17.= Stayman, _Gar. Mon._, =11=:37, 38, 40. 1869. _Summer grape._ =18.= _Grape Cult._, =1=:4, 7, 113. 1869. =19.= Engelmann, _Mo. Ent. Rpt._, =1872=:61. _Summer grape._ =20.= Engelmann, _Bush. Cat._, =1883=:10, 11, 12, 14, 16. _Summer grape._ =21.= Bush, _Ib._, =1883=:22. =22.= Munson, _Am. Hort. Soc. Rpt._, =1885=:134. _Summer grape._ =23.= Ib., _Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt._, =1885=:97, 98. _Summer grape._ =24.= Planchon, _De Candolle's Mon. Phan._, =5=:323, 334. =1887.= _Summer grape_; _Chicken grape_; _Little grape_. =25.= Munson, _Gar. and For._, =3=:474. 1890. =26.= Ib., _U. S. D. A. Pom. Bul._, =3=:11. 1890. =27.= Ib., _Bush. Cat._, =1894=:20, 22, 27, 28. _Summer grape._ =28.= Bailey, _Gray's Syn. Fl._, =1=:427. 1897. _Summer grape_; _Bunch grape_; _Pigeon grape_; _V. sylvestris_; _V. occidentalis_; _V. Americana_; _V. Nortoni_; _V. labrusca_, var. _aestivalis_; _V. bracteata_; _V. araneosus_. =29.= Britton and Brown, =2=:409. 1897. _Summer grape_; _Small grape_. =30.= Munson, _Tex. Sta. Bul._, =56=:231, 234, 266. 1900. =31.= Viala and Ravaz, _Am. Vines_, =1903=:42, 59.