[Herbalist] invasive climbing ivy

[Sue Rogers]

Um, Virginia creeper doesn't exactly match your initial description of
the leaves.  Didn't you say your vine had large heart shaped leaves?
Virginia creeper has five leaflets or a palmate leaf, somewhat similar to
a small version of a marijuana leaf.  It is commonly confused in these
parts with poison ivy (which has only 3 leaflets).  In the Arkansas
Ozarks, Virginia creeper is not as invasive as what you experienced (it
will be strangled by kudzu, passionflower, and honeysuckle, among
others), but the fall foliage is a beautiful red.  It will strangle
trees, left to its own devices....

Suzanna, herbalist, Barony of the Steppes, Kingdom of Ansteorrs (Dallas,
TX)


>It's Virginia Creeper, I had misidentified it from a website with mixed
up pictures.
>
> Bob
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