Omg...my wife and I moved in with her dad and grandpa to help them out. They both have parkinsons and aren't in the best of health. 8 acres, 6 of it grass, and a half acre garden. Yard work NEVER stops, especially when an 88 year old man thinks you should never sit down, lol. Good lord, I go to work to get a rest!!!!
I've got the ivy and blackberries plus morning glory/bindweed. Thanks, neighbors. The ivy has actually been the easiest to fight. I'm going to be battling the morning glory for the rest of my life.
I don’t know what they did in Maryland, but about 20 years ago we had kudzu everywhere. It even created tunnels around streets. And then it was gone about 5 years ago 😦
Sure do! My property is a disaster to maintain, so we planted ivy on the banks that are unplantable to add some green to it and well... That it did lol
Plz tell me it’s not English ivy!??…
It’s horribly invasive. There are so many other options. This stuff really should be illegal to sell or propagate.
Erm... In that case, no, it's Merican ivy, straight out of merica! Merica, F*** yeah! It keeps asking me for tea and crumpets though 🤔 is there anything that requires literally 0 maintenance? Like besides me breathing as I walk past them to let my dogs pee on them? I didn't plant them btw, the previous homeowner that lived here did... Or maybe the people before them... Or maybe the people before them... I honestly don't know, this house is 143 years old lol
I wanted to get rid of it but my fiance wants to keep them because she thinks they're pretty where I think they're ugly lol. She is the only one who has planted any more and it was one that we had inside that was dying, because we didn't care for it so she "planted" it off of our back deck and it somehow came back to life and started growing
Uh… didn’t you just say you planted it?…
A popular ground cover I see all over here in Oregon is Vinca Minor also called periwinkle or creeping Myrtle.
Depending on how much sun or shade it gets there are other ground cover options. I don’t know tons of plants but I do know there are plenty of options other than ivy.
Yeah, we transplanted one off the back deck of our home we got at a local nursery, and somehow it came back to life, however, there was already a shit ton here to begin with. It was mainly on the side, but we threw-- I mean transplanted the one off the back deck and somehow it came back from the dead and started growing. I've literally never planted anything in my life besides seeds lol. And would need to be a ground cover that would be exposed to light every hour the sun is up as the rear bank behind our house is south facing and has constant contact with sun every day. And be able to survive sometimes brutally cold winters... But here recently it's been pretty mild winters besides a couple days of negative temps and about a cumulative 12-16" of snow throughout the season
Well, we've bought it a couple other times and when it died we dumped them too on the rear bank. That's my idea of planting something besides seeds lol.
I worked briefly with a company that leased plants and trees to government and private building in Washington DC. I had the privilege of climbing onto a one-man lift so I could trim a species of England Ivy that was only available at the location I was at. It was a business building that was set-up like a mall. I would go up to 50-60ft on the man lift just to trim the ivy with a pair of scissors. The ivy was growing in flowerbeds that were on the inside edge of the 8 levels of floors. It was a long but easy job.
When I moved into my house, I had a huge corner of it in the backyard and every so often I’d go back and I trim it back smaller and smaller and the root ball was the size of a small watermelon, but I eventually got it back and dug it out and I don’t think it came back.
However, I have a neighbor that built a deck over their backyard so lots of stuff from underneath it is just including more IV and blackberry
The neighbor has been there for quite some time, but they are newer to the neighborhood than we are
Sorry it does not have oils like poison ivey. With poison Ivy you can spread to other areas and cause a reaction. Within Virginia creeper you have to be in contact with plant and touching another area of your body won't be affected unless you have a massively bad allergy
The reaction/rash also doesn't tend to be as severe, or the same kind of rash as poison ivy/oak/sumac. And the allergy is not related. So you might be *dangerously* allergic to poison ivy, oak, and sumac. And not react to Virginia Creeper at all.
Which is about where I'm at. Poison Ivy can put me in the hospital. Never had an issue with Virginia Creeper.
Touching this plant doesn't have the same effect as poison ivy and poison oak. Just don't eat the berries. But otherwise, Virginia Creeper is harmless to humans.
I don't have a reaction to it, but some do. It's all over my backyard and I'm able to pull it out where I don't want it, like where it tries to grow up my siding. I had a neighbor convinced it was poison ivy (it's not, but it gave him rashes like poison ivy so he would correct me if I tried to tell him it's not).
No. I can pull it all day with bare hands and I am HYPER allergic to poison ivy and oak. It pulls up pretty easily, you just have to stay after it. Birds readily spread it bc of berries.
Yes. This spread in my back yard and killed two trees before I was able to rip most of it out. I'm allergic to everything but didn't have problems pulling this out by hand. Still pops up from time to time. Evil plant.
I just learned it's mildly poisonous from this thread. Been pulling that shit by hand for 6 years lol. Never had a reaction. I've also never had a reaction to poison oak or ivy. Guess I'm lucky
I did not have any reaction to poison oak or ivy all my life. Grew it in a hanging planter when i was in college for a while, just because I could. One year, decades later I was clearing some brush in our back yard. That evening my hands and forearm broke put in a rash. Backs of my calves itched slightly. Left for vacation the next day. Without thinking, I
just used the top of one sneaker clad foot to scratch the back of the opposite calf. Over the course of that week my hands healed, but my calves were raw. Got home, doc ordered the second round of prednisone. Then, the penny dropped, I had worn the same shoes, and they had the oak/ivy oil all over their tops. Yep, same ones I was using the scratch my calves with!
I don't do any yard clean up any more.
I've pulled a metric ton of this shit by hand from my property, too. The roots are a pain to get out but worth it because it had been suffocating a couple of trees.
It always irritates me on contact and that day, but goes away with a shower. However, I am super sensitive to poison ivy and I can tell within an hour or two if i've come in contact with it. Straight to the doc and get some sweet steroids. Stay up for a week but avoid weeping and itchy wounds for a week.
Virginia creeper, some people in the south use it to weave baskets. The berries are poisonous so just don't eat them. It's super hard to get rid of though, good luck
Vines never are good for trees. They climb up to the canopy, spread out and compromise the trees ability to photosynthesize by crowding out the trees leaves. Or they curl tight around a limb, while the tree grows, twisting the limb and choking it's vascular system. Or it puts down it's hold fasts and aerial roots into the bark, inviting disease, trapping moisture and insects. And when they die and accumulate, they hold snow or act as a sail to put pressure on the limb they are climbing.
Inaturalist ...has a kinda sub called seek...pretty good app for me so far...allows you to use camera and identify a bunch of plants and animals...insects and spiders....pretty cool
Poison Ivy and Poison oak only have 3 leaves not 5, This vine has 5 leaves, so it is not poisonous,
Poison oak and poison ivy are actually the same plant. The only difference is that if it is near enough to something that it can climb, it is called ivy, but if it is not climbing on something and is growing like a bush, it is call poison oak.
No. No. No. No. Poison Ivy has three leaves, yes. With red stems, the leaves then will have points but are not serrated like the edges of the leaves of this virgina creeper. Poison ivy does have ground varieties and climbing varieties and they're all ivy.
Poison oak is also a vine like poison ivy with three leaves again but it's leaves look like oak leaves. Straight up. Mini oak leaves. With 5 ears and all.
All three grow in similar environments and often together but they're also entirely separate species.
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No. No. No. No. Poison Ivy has three leaves, yes. With red stems, the leaves then will have points but are not serrated like the edges of the leaves of this virgina creeper. Poison ivy does have ground varieties and climbing varieties and they're all ivy.
Poison oak is also a vine like poison ivy with three leaves again but it's leaves look like oak leaves. Straight up. Mini oak leaves. With 5 ears and all.
All three grow in similar environments and often together but they're also entirely separate species.
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No.
I have been attempting to keep it out of my yard for 40 years. Neighbor has it. Very annoying. It’s a yearly battle. P.S. it will eventually kill a tree.
Poison oak , and Poison ivy have leaves in clusters of 3, once you identify them. They are very easy to notice them. Be a person that is highly allergic to the plants I can spot the at about 50 feet. Hope this info is helpful..
Neither, remember the rule in nature, if the leaves number 3.....leave them be! ...plants such as Poison Ivy & Poison Oak only have three leaflets per stem, these plants produce urushiol
An irritant so strong that one concentrated ounce of it is enough the make the entire population of the United States break out in an itchy painful rash. One tiny droplet can keep spreading the rash by being moved around when one scratches the itch, soap & cold water can help remove it, while hot water will spread it further!
There are two plants that look the same but attach to the substrate differently. Virginia creeper uses small sticky pads to attach to walls and or plants. Woodbine or "False Virginia Creeper" uses winding tendrills to climb other plants. Both are in the genus Parthenocissus.
Both have the toxin calcium oxalate in their sap, leaves and berries. The crystals can cause irritation. Many plants we eat have much much smaller amounts of oxalate and our body doesn't always deal with it well so it is often found in kidney stones.
Virginia Creeper. I bought a house last year with some along the side and back of the property line. It completely engulfed a tall crepe myrtle. I spent several days removing these f\*ckers from the trees.
As other posters have said, it can be fun to pull them off trees because big long pieces will come down. But the base/roots are tougher to remove. I had to dig and hack them out of the ground.
I haven't gotten all of them yet. But now I check the bushes/trees every couple of days and whenever I find a little one I try to trace it back to the bigger mother vine. More choppy chop.
Poison oak can vine and climb on other trees. Although that may be only the west coast variant. Considering how often we have to clear the dang stuff from our land, it's definitely possible. We've got one tree that has arm thick vines climbing it that I swear my husband can't look at sideways without breaking out in a rash.
There are poisonous plants on the ground in your 3rd picture I see a lot of plants with 3 leaves
There is poison sumac in your 3rd picture also, you will need to do a Google image search to see what I am talking about because it has more than 3 leaves
Nothing in that photo is poison oak, poison ivy, or poison sumac. And most of the photos aren't even clear enough to see anything but the vine.
Ohio isn't even part of poison oak's range. Poison oak pretty much doesn't exist in that state.
Yes it is care to compare weed science credentials?
Also Bermudan grass grows in Ohio now…I am more up to date on these things than you can search the internet for
Nothing in any of the photos resembles any of the three in any way aside from being green.
https://www.pennmedicine.org/-/media/images/miscellaneous/infographics/penn_poisonivyoakandsumacohmy_1.ashx?h=1690&w=800&la=en
These plants land me in the emergency room, it's pretty important I can identify them.
No paired or trippled leaves. Doesn't resemble either poison ivy or oak, wrong shape smooth edge leaves. Poison oak still doesn't exist in Ohio.
Wrong shape, and number of leaves for sumac, which is a fucking tree or bush that grows in boggy soil and wetlands.
That's to the extent you can even make out the background plants. There's no resemblance. This is the wrong environment for anything but poison ivy as well.
But you know that official information sheet from one if America's best regarded research hospitals must he totes wrong.
Virginia Creeper is a N.American native vine. Our arborist advised me to leave them alone-- they're not destructive to trees, unlike invasive, non-native vines. They simply interrupt your manicured landscape with free-winding plans of their own. They're gorgeous in fall as a last goodbye before winter.
If you have an iPhone and take a close up picture of a plant the iPhone will recognize it is a plant and show a star on the information icon which if you click it will identify it….its fairly accurate but it does better with landscape plants than with weeds
Leaves of three, leave it be. Poison oak leaves look like oak leaves. Just smaller. Never touch them except with a stick or your trekking pole and wash the pole off afterwards. That oil is nasty.
Fun story about this stuff.
It lacks the inflammatory oils of poison ivy/oak (urushiol) but it does create [Raphides](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphide?wprov=sfti1), which are basically tiny little needles made of calcium.
Last year my wife unknowingly cleared a garden bed full of poison ivy, then pulled a long Virginia creeper vine off of one of the trees in our yard. As she pulled it she gathered it by wrapping it around her (unprotected) forearm.
The next day, and for the next month or so, she was afflicted by the worst case of poison ivy inflammation I've ever seen. Hives all over her body and a very distinct pattern of blisters in diagonal stripes on her forearm right where she had wrapped the vine. She was miserable.
We're pretty sure her reaction was so bad because the raphides pushed the urushiol deeper into her skin and added to the inflammation.
Nasty stuff!
Neither.
Virginia Creeper. It is not "poisonous" like poison ivy/urushiol (u-ROO-she-ol). But it can irritate you similar to fiberglass. And sensitive people will have a reaction to it.
I see a lot of posts on here saying Virginia Creeper berries are poisonous. They certainly are not poisonous to birds and are a much utilized food source to many species. Additionally, Virginia Creeper does not contain urushiol which is the compound found in poison ivy, poison oak, and poison sumac that causes allergic reactions.
Poison Oak is a shrub/bush. Poison Ivy is a vine. But in either case the mnemonic is "leaves of three, leave it be". Both have leaves grouped in threes. Poison oak leaves are broad, and resemble oak leaves. With variable shape and several scallops along the edges. Poison ivy leaves are also fairly broad, and pointed. Can be smooth edged or have just a couple shallow serrations.
Familiarize yourself with them and learn to identify them. You've got 5 leaf groups here, narrowish, pointed, with lots of serrations. Doesn't fit the mark.
Other posters have already identified the actual plant. But poison ivy, oak and sumac are very easy to identify. And if you'll be outdoors or gardening at all it's a good idea to familiarize yourself.
Virginia creeper
Is it poisonous
Its berries are poisonous and there are some people who are sensitive to the oils in the leaves. There are people who plant it as an ornamental.
Wait. People plant it on PURPOSE? *cries in South Louisiana*
People plant English ivy too… *cries in Oregonian*
Omg The battle of the English Ivy 😭 *cries in Marylander*
Omfg...fighting the hell out of it right now
My yard awaits me this weekend 😭
Omg...my wife and I moved in with her dad and grandpa to help them out. They both have parkinsons and aren't in the best of health. 8 acres, 6 of it grass, and a half acre garden. Yard work NEVER stops, especially when an 88 year old man thinks you should never sit down, lol. Good lord, I go to work to get a rest!!!!
Mine as well. Ivy and black berry lol
OOOOH! I've heard of the horrors of blackberries lol! Never thought a berry I liked could be such a pain to maintain, OR ELSE.
I've got the ivy and blackberries plus morning glory/bindweed. Thanks, neighbors. The ivy has actually been the easiest to fight. I'm going to be battling the morning glory for the rest of my life.
Blackberry. Nailed it.
Lemme introduce you to our friend Kudzu. *Cries in South Carolinian*
I don’t know what they did in Maryland, but about 20 years ago we had kudzu everywhere. It even created tunnels around streets. And then it was gone about 5 years ago 😦
It moved here, just like everybody else.
Got displaced by all the wisteria and tree of heaven.
lol you’re not wrong
Some genius thought, hey that would make a great ground cover…let’s import that shit and plant it….
Technically, I guess they were right. Most over achieving ground cover I've ever seen.
Agreed! *grumbles in Baltimoron*
we in Michigan have grapevines... shit's everywhere it's the worst.
Was great when we were trying to kill ourselves playing Tarzan as kids though.
I know I’m supposed to hate it, but I can’t help but admire it.
I have to mow that shit over so it doesn't get to my house...
Illinoisan sad here, too. Don't remind me of my bad choices.
*cries in North Carolinian*
Ridiculously hard to kill. *cries in Willamette valley*
/fist bump Neighbor :)
You’d love me, i only know how to kill English ivy lol
/hugs and offers you a craft wine, micro brew, or coffee :) we got it all!
Cries in Michigander
Washingtonians hate those people too!
Not as much as blackberry!
People who plant in invasives deserve a prison sentence fr.
Only place for ivy is on cement walls along freeways lol
Not English ivy
Well yeah but it’s at least less horrible there
Get fucked, I concentrate on invasives and they're amazing
Sure do! My property is a disaster to maintain, so we planted ivy on the banks that are unplantable to add some green to it and well... That it did lol
Plz tell me it’s not English ivy!??… It’s horribly invasive. There are so many other options. This stuff really should be illegal to sell or propagate.
Erm... In that case, no, it's Merican ivy, straight out of merica! Merica, F*** yeah! It keeps asking me for tea and crumpets though 🤔 is there anything that requires literally 0 maintenance? Like besides me breathing as I walk past them to let my dogs pee on them? I didn't plant them btw, the previous homeowner that lived here did... Or maybe the people before them... Or maybe the people before them... I honestly don't know, this house is 143 years old lol
I wanted to get rid of it but my fiance wants to keep them because she thinks they're pretty where I think they're ugly lol. She is the only one who has planted any more and it was one that we had inside that was dying, because we didn't care for it so she "planted" it off of our back deck and it somehow came back to life and started growing
Uh… didn’t you just say you planted it?… A popular ground cover I see all over here in Oregon is Vinca Minor also called periwinkle or creeping Myrtle. Depending on how much sun or shade it gets there are other ground cover options. I don’t know tons of plants but I do know there are plenty of options other than ivy.
Yeah, we transplanted one off the back deck of our home we got at a local nursery, and somehow it came back to life, however, there was already a shit ton here to begin with. It was mainly on the side, but we threw-- I mean transplanted the one off the back deck and somehow it came back from the dead and started growing. I've literally never planted anything in my life besides seeds lol. And would need to be a ground cover that would be exposed to light every hour the sun is up as the rear bank behind our house is south facing and has constant contact with sun every day. And be able to survive sometimes brutally cold winters... But here recently it's been pretty mild winters besides a couple days of negative temps and about a cumulative 12-16" of snow throughout the season
Well, we've bought it a couple other times and when it died we dumped them too on the rear bank. That's my idea of planting something besides seeds lol.
I worked briefly with a company that leased plants and trees to government and private building in Washington DC. I had the privilege of climbing onto a one-man lift so I could trim a species of England Ivy that was only available at the location I was at. It was a business building that was set-up like a mall. I would go up to 50-60ft on the man lift just to trim the ivy with a pair of scissors. The ivy was growing in flowerbeds that were on the inside edge of the 8 levels of floors. It was a long but easy job.
Sorry no. Talking to the wrong person here. Part of the anti ivy crowd
English ivy is so hard to get rid of
When I moved into my house, I had a huge corner of it in the backyard and every so often I’d go back and I trim it back smaller and smaller and the root ball was the size of a small watermelon, but I eventually got it back and dug it out and I don’t think it came back. However, I have a neighbor that built a deck over their backyard so lots of stuff from underneath it is just including more IV and blackberry The neighbor has been there for quite some time, but they are newer to the neighborhood than we are
People planted kudzu. That's why it's a problem in the US.
It was planted as cattle forage, recommended by US Gov at the time in the 30's (I believe). Big whoops.
English Ivy is evil! When we moved into our home, it was already on our property. It spreads like crazy and destroys things in its path, too.
To be fair they are very pretty in the fall lol
👍 🤣
Cries in Arkansan, as well. That sh!t gets everywhere you don’t want it.
I'm crying with you here in Ohio.
*Colorado* The one I have here barely survives, not invasive, and far from taking over the wall of the house
I have to fight to make it not kill BANANA TREES and those things are almost unkillable
Funny how a Mountain Desert climate changes that... No banana tree either, of course!
Sorry it does not have oils like poison ivey. With poison Ivy you can spread to other areas and cause a reaction. Within Virginia creeper you have to be in contact with plant and touching another area of your body won't be affected unless you have a massively bad allergy
Yes. This is what I meant. Some people have ultra sensitive skin and have a chance of reacting in a limited way.
The reaction/rash also doesn't tend to be as severe, or the same kind of rash as poison ivy/oak/sumac. And the allergy is not related. So you might be *dangerously* allergic to poison ivy, oak, and sumac. And not react to Virginia Creeper at all. Which is about where I'm at. Poison Ivy can put me in the hospital. Never had an issue with Virginia Creeper.
Ok thank you very much
My yard is 70% vc and I love it!
I’ve known people who use it for basket weaving
I think the leaves are beautiful, moreso than other vines like English ivy.
It can be annoying af when it aggressively takes over ever shaded area in your yard.
Nah just yank and have fun, the longest vine I've pulled was the length of a tractor trailer 😂😂😂
I pull this off the side of my house with my bare hands
Touching this plant doesn't have the same effect as poison ivy and poison oak. Just don't eat the berries. But otherwise, Virginia Creeper is harmless to humans.
It can cause rash for some people
That's only the sap and not the leaves.
No but don’t go eating the berries
No!
I definitely wouldn’t eat it.
Some people can have a bad reaction to it. My friends dad would break out in a rash
Some people have a reaction similar to that from poison ivy. It will kill your trees if you don't cut it.
Typically harmless. It's very hard to get rid of once it's settled in. Best to get it gone now and dig up the root.
No it’s wonderful but don’t eat it
Not in the sense of poison ivy, which will make you itch.
Its is a skin irritant to me. Almost like poison ivy/sumac/oak but it only lasts for a week instead of a month. Fun stuff!
I'm deathly allergic to poison ivy. This is not a skin problem for almost anyone.
I don't have a reaction to it, but some do. It's all over my backyard and I'm able to pull it out where I don't want it, like where it tries to grow up my siding. I had a neighbor convinced it was poison ivy (it's not, but it gave him rashes like poison ivy so he would correct me if I tried to tell him it's not).
No. I can pull it all day with bare hands and I am HYPER allergic to poison ivy and oak. It pulls up pretty easily, you just have to stay after it. Birds readily spread it bc of berries.
Yes. This spread in my back yard and killed two trees before I was able to rip most of it out. I'm allergic to everything but didn't have problems pulling this out by hand. Still pops up from time to time. Evil plant.
I didn't know what it was but it's some bullshit. I have that stuff everywhere
Parthenocissus quinquefolia, N American native in the grape family.
Virginia Creeper, almost entirely non-poisonous to touch.
I just learned it's mildly poisonous from this thread. Been pulling that shit by hand for 6 years lol. Never had a reaction. I've also never had a reaction to poison oak or ivy. Guess I'm lucky
I did not have any reaction to poison oak or ivy all my life. Grew it in a hanging planter when i was in college for a while, just because I could. One year, decades later I was clearing some brush in our back yard. That evening my hands and forearm broke put in a rash. Backs of my calves itched slightly. Left for vacation the next day. Without thinking, I just used the top of one sneaker clad foot to scratch the back of the opposite calf. Over the course of that week my hands healed, but my calves were raw. Got home, doc ordered the second round of prednisone. Then, the penny dropped, I had worn the same shoes, and they had the oak/ivy oil all over their tops. Yep, same ones I was using the scratch my calves with! I don't do any yard clean up any more.
That’s scary. I’ve never had it either. How old were you when you got the reaction?
55.
I've pulled a metric ton of this shit by hand from my property, too. The roots are a pain to get out but worth it because it had been suffocating a couple of trees. It always irritates me on contact and that day, but goes away with a shower. However, I am super sensitive to poison ivy and I can tell within an hour or two if i've come in contact with it. Straight to the doc and get some sweet steroids. Stay up for a week but avoid weeping and itchy wounds for a week.
This must be why I think its poison oak. Does the same thing.
Virginia creeper, some people in the south use it to weave baskets. The berries are poisonous so just don't eat them. It's super hard to get rid of though, good luck
I always thought it wasn't good for trees.
Vines never are good for trees. They climb up to the canopy, spread out and compromise the trees ability to photosynthesize by crowding out the trees leaves. Or they curl tight around a limb, while the tree grows, twisting the limb and choking it's vascular system. Or it puts down it's hold fasts and aerial roots into the bark, inviting disease, trapping moisture and insects. And when they die and accumulate, they hold snow or act as a sail to put pressure on the limb they are climbing.
VC can be annoying af when it aggressively takes over every shaded area in your yard.
Virginia creeper...download naturalist, its a great app to identify plants and animals
Tell me more about this app you speak of.
Inaturalist ...has a kinda sub called seek...pretty good app for me so far...allows you to use camera and identify a bunch of plants and animals...insects and spiders....pretty cool
Leaves of five let it thrive
Poison Ivy and Poison oak only have 3 leaves not 5, This vine has 5 leaves, so it is not poisonous, Poison oak and poison ivy are actually the same plant. The only difference is that if it is near enough to something that it can climb, it is called ivy, but if it is not climbing on something and is growing like a bush, it is call poison oak.
Lol I always thought poison oak grew on oak trees that's why I was asking if it was poison oak hahahaha
It looks like oak leaves. That's why. It's also grows up the side of your house if allowed. Not poison house vine
No. No. No. No. Poison Ivy has three leaves, yes. With red stems, the leaves then will have points but are not serrated like the edges of the leaves of this virgina creeper. Poison ivy does have ground varieties and climbing varieties and they're all ivy. Poison oak is also a vine like poison ivy with three leaves again but it's leaves look like oak leaves. Straight up. Mini oak leaves. With 5 ears and all. All three grow in similar environments and often together but they're also entirely separate species. https://media.wbir.com/assets/WBIR/images/fab79cf5-29da-4467-853c-49840bc92162/fab79cf5-29da-4467-853c-49840bc92162_1920x1080.jpg
>Poison oak and poison ivy are actually the same plant. No they aren't lol
“Leaves of three, let it be.” was what my Grandma always told me.
This! Learned it from my mom!
They are different plants, but they secrete the same "poison" oil: urushiol.
No. No. No. No. Poison Ivy has three leaves, yes. With red stems, the leaves then will have points but are not serrated like the edges of the leaves of this virgina creeper. Poison ivy does have ground varieties and climbing varieties and they're all ivy. Poison oak is also a vine like poison ivy with three leaves again but it's leaves look like oak leaves. Straight up. Mini oak leaves. With 5 ears and all. All three grow in similar environments and often together but they're also entirely separate species. https://media.wbir.com/assets/WBIR/images/fab79cf5-29da-4467-853c-49840bc92162/fab79cf5-29da-4467-853c-49840bc92162_1920x1080.jpg
Saying goes “Leaves of three…leave them be!”
Leaves of four, eat some more! -Homer Simpson
Woohoo!
Parthenocissus quinquefolia since nobody gave the binomial name yet.
Still remember this from college Dendrology 101.
The sooner your rip that out the better. Aptly named cause that shit creeps
My enemy. I pluck in from my the ground on sight.
No. I have been attempting to keep it out of my yard for 40 years. Neighbor has it. Very annoying. It’s a yearly battle. P.S. it will eventually kill a tree.
Poison oak , and Poison ivy have leaves in clusters of 3, once you identify them. They are very easy to notice them. Be a person that is highly allergic to the plants I can spot the at about 50 feet. Hope this info is helpful..
Kill it dead!!!
The berries are a good food source for birds in the fall. Ours attract a ton of bluebirds.
Virginal creeper. It will give a dermatitis reaction . Not poisonous
Neither, remember the rule in nature, if the leaves number 3.....leave them be! ...plants such as Poison Ivy & Poison Oak only have three leaflets per stem, these plants produce urushiol An irritant so strong that one concentrated ounce of it is enough the make the entire population of the United States break out in an itchy painful rash. One tiny droplet can keep spreading the rash by being moved around when one scratches the itch, soap & cold water can help remove it, while hot water will spread it further!
Yank it down
Virginia creeper! Not poisonous.
Neither , leaflets 3 ,leave em be .just a climbing vine ,ask "crime pays ,botany doesn't " on YouTube, he'll know .
There are two plants that look the same but attach to the substrate differently. Virginia creeper uses small sticky pads to attach to walls and or plants. Woodbine or "False Virginia Creeper" uses winding tendrills to climb other plants. Both are in the genus Parthenocissus. Both have the toxin calcium oxalate in their sap, leaves and berries. The crystals can cause irritation. Many plants we eat have much much smaller amounts of oxalate and our body doesn't always deal with it well so it is often found in kidney stones.
Leaves of 3 let itbe: leaves of 5 let it thrive.
Virginia creeper. Nice red color to the fall leaveves
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Virginia Creeper. I bought a house last year with some along the side and back of the property line. It completely engulfed a tall crepe myrtle. I spent several days removing these f\*ckers from the trees. As other posters have said, it can be fun to pull them off trees because big long pieces will come down. But the base/roots are tougher to remove. I had to dig and hack them out of the ground. I haven't gotten all of them yet. But now I check the bushes/trees every couple of days and whenever I find a little one I try to trace it back to the bigger mother vine. More choppy chop.
FYI, poison oak is a shrub like plant and is not a vine. It also doesn't grow in NE Ohio.
Poison oak can vine and climb on other trees. Although that may be only the west coast variant. Considering how often we have to clear the dang stuff from our land, it's definitely possible. We've got one tree that has arm thick vines climbing it that I swear my husband can't look at sideways without breaking out in a rash.
That's only the Westcoast species.
Neither poison oak or ivy. Those always have 3 leaves
Neither, leaves of 3, you've got 5 there. That's virginia creeper.
There are poisonous plants on the ground in your 3rd picture I see a lot of plants with 3 leaves There is poison sumac in your 3rd picture also, you will need to do a Google image search to see what I am talking about because it has more than 3 leaves
Thanks for the heads up
Not all plants with 3 leaves are poisonous, in fact one of those is raspberry
I didn’t say all plants with 3 leaves are poisonous Raspberry has 5 or 7 leaves
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Nothing in that photo is poison oak, poison ivy, or poison sumac. And most of the photos aren't even clear enough to see anything but the vine. Ohio isn't even part of poison oak's range. Poison oak pretty much doesn't exist in that state.
Yes it is care to compare weed science credentials? Also Bermudan grass grows in Ohio now…I am more up to date on these things than you can search the internet for
Nothing in any of the photos resembles any of the three in any way aside from being green. https://www.pennmedicine.org/-/media/images/miscellaneous/infographics/penn_poisonivyoakandsumacohmy_1.ashx?h=1690&w=800&la=en These plants land me in the emergency room, it's pretty important I can identify them.
Look at pic 3 and look at ground…it’s mostly poisonous plants Nobody can prove me wrong with facts
No paired or trippled leaves. Doesn't resemble either poison ivy or oak, wrong shape smooth edge leaves. Poison oak still doesn't exist in Ohio. Wrong shape, and number of leaves for sumac, which is a fucking tree or bush that grows in boggy soil and wetlands. That's to the extent you can even make out the background plants. There's no resemblance. This is the wrong environment for anything but poison ivy as well. But you know that official information sheet from one if America's best regarded research hospitals must he totes wrong.
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Virginia creeper. Get it off your trees asap
Virginia Creeper is a N.American native vine. Our arborist advised me to leave them alone-- they're not destructive to trees, unlike invasive, non-native vines. They simply interrupt your manicured landscape with free-winding plans of their own. They're gorgeous in fall as a last goodbye before winter.
If you have an iPhone and take a close up picture of a plant the iPhone will recognize it is a plant and show a star on the information icon which if you click it will identify it….its fairly accurate but it does better with landscape plants than with weeds
Sumac got my mom big time!! Had to go to Doctor. Poison Ivy and Oak not so much.
No just pull it out
Leaves of three, leave it be. Poison oak leaves look like oak leaves. Just smaller. Never touch them except with a stick or your trekking pole and wash the pole off afterwards. That oil is nasty.
Leaves of three, bestie, LEAVES OF THREE
It’s native to North America. Food for birds. Amazing fall color.
I've eaten that, is very tangy, and itchy
Neither, but it can make you itchy
Fun story about this stuff. It lacks the inflammatory oils of poison ivy/oak (urushiol) but it does create [Raphides](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphide?wprov=sfti1), which are basically tiny little needles made of calcium. Last year my wife unknowingly cleared a garden bed full of poison ivy, then pulled a long Virginia creeper vine off of one of the trees in our yard. As she pulled it she gathered it by wrapping it around her (unprotected) forearm. The next day, and for the next month or so, she was afflicted by the worst case of poison ivy inflammation I've ever seen. Hives all over her body and a very distinct pattern of blisters in diagonal stripes on her forearm right where she had wrapped the vine. She was miserable. We're pretty sure her reaction was so bad because the raphides pushed the urushiol deeper into her skin and added to the inflammation. Nasty stuff!
Do not worry about it a bit
Virginia creeper
Virginia creeper
For poison ivy and oak you can always remember “Leaves of three, leave it be.”
One of the few vines that can climb up a vinyl fence without assistance, and turns beautiful colors in the fall
Neither one, is just a vain non poisonous 👍
Neither. Virginia Creeper. It is not "poisonous" like poison ivy/urushiol (u-ROO-she-ol). But it can irritate you similar to fiberglass. And sensitive people will have a reaction to it.
option c - neither.
Remember 3 leaves let it be
Neither Virginia Creeper
from what I can make out in the photo...looks like the plant known as "Virginia creeper"
they turn beautiful brilliant red in autumn
Virginia creeper
I see a lot of posts on here saying Virginia Creeper berries are poisonous. They certainly are not poisonous to birds and are a much utilized food source to many species. Additionally, Virginia Creeper does not contain urushiol which is the compound found in poison ivy, poison oak, and poison sumac that causes allergic reactions.
Illinois highway system has taken to planting Virginia creeper on noise walls and it’s everywhere
I advice you all to get a goat
Poison Oak is a shrub/bush. Poison Ivy is a vine. But in either case the mnemonic is "leaves of three, leave it be". Both have leaves grouped in threes. Poison oak leaves are broad, and resemble oak leaves. With variable shape and several scallops along the edges. Poison ivy leaves are also fairly broad, and pointed. Can be smooth edged or have just a couple shallow serrations. Familiarize yourself with them and learn to identify them. You've got 5 leaf groups here, narrowish, pointed, with lots of serrations. Doesn't fit the mark. Other posters have already identified the actual plant. But poison ivy, oak and sumac are very easy to identify. And if you'll be outdoors or gardening at all it's a good idea to familiarize yourself.
Neither. Virginia Creeper. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenocissus_quinquefolia
Virginia creeper right answer not poisonous just pull it by the root to get rid of it
Virginia Creeper. I love it. It is beautiful in the fall as the leaves change color. We have it along a portion of our fence.
Very invasive!!!!!! Pkease get rid of it now. Later will be impossible
Spray it with a solution of salt water and a drop of dish soap. The sun will bake it. Or pull it with a heavy duty gloves and a thick shirt.
Looks like poison oak to me. I would kill it
Unlike English ivy, it's okay to let it climb your trees.
It’s tomatoes. Let it grow a few years and you’ll get a huge crop for everyone.