Grape vines??? Help identify!

[77horses]

There's a mystery plant growing around our nearly-dead(thanks to the deer) shrub bushes. It's a type of vine, and the leaves look exactly like the ones that grow on grape vines. It could be grape vines growing, but what's strange is that there are little pea-sized pinkish-greenish colored buds growing on the vines, too. They are separate from each other and have little leaf-like things growing out of the top...Couldn't get a pic, but this is basically what it looks likesorry about bad drawing...the leaf is suppose to be much bigger than it appears to be in the pic, and the bud-like things aren't as bright pink. In real life, they are like a brownish-green-pink color)

Also, do wild grapes usually grow in Maine?
Any thoughts?

Thanks!

 

[Sillystunt]

ummm, don'tthink they are grapes but they can grow up there. My grapes grow in clusters and don't have leaf things. It's a vine? sounds like jypson weeds. Need a picture~

 

[ChooksChick]

Our wild grape looks like the one pictured here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitis_riparia

Only I've only seen the berries as individuals, not in clusters. I love that there's poison ivy in the middle of the pic!

I'm guessing it could be another type of berry, too- I don't know what...

 

[ChooksChick]

Did it look like this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampelopsis_brevipedunculata

 

[77horses]

Quote:
Thanks, but no the leaves don't look anything like those. it didn't look like either of the pictures in the links you posted.

 

[77horses]

Hold on, I have a pic on my cell phone and sent it to my email...will post in a moment...

 

[77horses]

Here's the pic: of the strange bud things:

 

[77horses]

This is what the leaves look like(found on internet):
http://www.prodigalgardens.info/Images/Herb Pics September/Wild Grapes/Grape Leaves.JPG

 

[Sillystunt]

humm, the leaves you posted do look like grape leaves. Now i am gonna have to what and find out with yo what these are....

 

[mamagardener]

I don't know for sure if that is wild grapes, but you probably could have them in Maine. I live in MA and they are all over the place.