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We sell poison ivy posters and cards to help you avoid the plant.
Our ID cards are life size images that you can carry in the field and compare to the actual plants.

Card sets cost $28, posters $18.
Go to the store page.

Poison Ivy Control
Go to our list of Professional Poison Ivy Control Services, some using the manual method, some the chemical.

Announcing the ALL NEW 2013 Skin Rash Hall of Fame!
Viewers send in their own rash photos. After all they have suffered, they WANT people to see what they went through. And motivate others to learn how to avoid the rash. If you think you can stand it, click here to see the rashes.

Featured Photo:
This remarkable rash showed up before poison ivy sprouted, so it's a mystery how this young fellow got such a superb rash. On its way to the Hall of Fame.

Poison Ivy and CO2!
According to the Wall Street Journal, research published in Weed Science (is your subscription up to date?) indicates that poison ivy has gotten MUCH nastier since the 1950's. Leaf size and nasty oil content are way up.

So it is not your imagination that it is worse than when you or your parents were kids. Seems like a minor problem, all in all, considering the possible consequences of a 33% increase in CO2 in only 50 years. Since poison ivy absorbs more than its share of CO2, it is helping combat climate change. So there IS something to love about this plant.

By the way, every so often someone threatens me for talking about climate change, which they claim is a liberal hoax. So here's the deal: Every time somebody threatens me, I will increase the amount of information about climate change on this website. So go right ahead and hassle me. Make my day.

Recently, I got a few climate-change deniers hassling me, so as promised, I am adding more info about climate change every time they act up: The planet just passed above the 400 parts per-million number. It was 280 ppm before people starting burning fossil fuel. And we can't rely on poison ivy to absorb all that excess CO2.