Information about poison ivy, oak, sumac and the skin rashes they cause
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There is a great deal of confusion about poison ivy vs. poison oak, since there are two kinds of poison ivy and two kinds of poison oak. Learn more.
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Here are three trees between a road and field. All three are covered with vigorous growths of poison ivy.
In fact, each of these could likely be stripped just by cutting the vines near the ground and just yanking the vines off the trees.
This image illustrates two points:
1. It is very common to find poison ivy growing in well-tended suburban condominium developments.
2. The plant will climb when it can, but also grows as a ground cover. (Also as a shrub, at times.)
Driving along a suburban road here in Massachusetts, I noticed this nasty poison ivy infestation on a wooden fence.
Hog peanut is a vine that can be very difficult to tell apart from poison ivy, and they sometimes grow on the ground together.
Hog peanut does not climb as poison ivy does, so if you find a vine on a tree or house it can't be hog peanut (though it could be Virginia creeper).
