General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Shrub
Vine
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Partial or Dappled Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 4a -34.4 °C (-30 °F) to -31.7 °C (-25 °F)
Plant Height: 2 to 4 feet or more
Leaves: Deciduous
Fruit: Edible to birds
Other: Small tannish-white fleshy drupes.
Fruiting Time: Late summer or early fall
Fall
Flowers: Inconspicuous
Flower Color: Other: Yellowish-white to greenish-white
Bloom Size: Under 1"
Flower Time: Summer
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Resistances: Humidity tolerant
Toxicity: Leaves are poisonous
Roots are poisonous
Fruit is poisonous
Other: Other: All parts of plant contain toxic urushiol oil. Coming into contact with any part of the plant may cause extreme dermatitis in some individuals.
Miscellaneous: Dioecious

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Common names
  • Eastern Poison Ivy

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Location: full sun - zone 7
Date: 2020-09-11
Notched leaves helped me avoid it as it was that feature that ran
Location: full sun - zone 7
Date: 2020-09-11
Leaves not shiny.
Location: full sun - zone 7
Date: 2020-09-11
Confused about identity because it's growing at the base of clema
Location: Charleston, SC
Date: 2022-03-26
Location: Winter Springs, Florida, United States
Date: 2019-12-27

Date: 2012-04-16
Early spring growth is often tinted red, also shows white flower

Date: 2012-04-16
\"Leaves of three, let it be.\"

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