This vine is totally taking over.. I am clearing a piece of property and I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions in getting rid of this vine without killing the under growth
No never any berries that I have seen... The leaves are cordate in shape, dentate (coarse-toothed) margins, palmate veins, glabrous surface...
I'm across the state from you. It's Vitis rotundifolia. While we have many invasive vines, V. rotundifolia is probably the most common across the central peninsula of the state. Expect yellow leaves in November, some starting now. This grape will have single tendrils, not branched. When you drive by entire woods covered with tattered vines, they'll be grapes and not kudzu. (Although kudzu blooms smell like grape Koolaid, oddly enough.) We're too far south for kudzu's comfort. Dioscorea bulbifera is the next most common aggressive vine, but I'd guess you'd recognize that by the ubiquitous air potato. Besides, the leaf shape clinches it for me if the distance shots weren't convincing enough. You will have to dig it out, but at least it's not going to be all that deep comparatively. Maybe only a few inches in marl, maybe a foot or so in sand. I tend to rip it out first, grabbing handfuls of the vine and yanking. It will strip leaves off of other plants as you pull, though. Cutting it at the roots leaves an ugly persistent shroud of dead vines that you are going to have to manually remove anyway.
