Information about poison ivy, oak, sumac and the skin rashes they cause
The two plants often grow intermingled, which creates extra confusion.
The five-leaved plant, Virginia Creeper, is a common gound cover that is sold in nurseries. (Touching it seems to bother some people, but it is not a national health scourge like poison ivy.)
Poison ivy most often grows in two forms: a ground vine and a climbing vine.
But it is easy to show that the ground vine will become a climbing vine when it runs into a vertical to climb, such as a wall or a tree.
Toronto radio hosts Roz and Mocha talk about how Roz is dealing with a major poison ivy rash attack. This is the ONLY radio discussion of poison ivy on this site!
Here is a lovely example of poison ivy invading a typical hedge outside someone's house.
Note how the hedge is barely growing in the pleasant spring weather, whiile the poison ivy is jumping 6 inches up.
There is now a special anti poison ivy gardening glove available called NOMPI! Which stands for No More Poison Ivy. The gloves have long sleeves attached to protect forearms.
They are made with care by their inventor after she got one too many poison ivy rashes.
Here is a great example of poison ivy growing in a city and also coming over a rooftop. Looks like this vine started behind a wall, climbed up, found sunlight, exploded with growht in all directions, and sent out enough berries to feed a flock of birds.
This photo, taken on April 14th in Bedford, Massachusetts, shows a poison ivy vine that is way ahead of most of the poison ivy here in New England. Most other poison ivy had just shown the tiniest of red leaf buds at this date.
Depending on where you live, poison ivy leaves have either just popped out, or will do so very soon.
This is a pretty typical look for early spring growing tips of poison ivy.
I suspect that this case (and this post) will be as controversial and contentious as the lawsuit it reports on.
Most babies are cute, of all animal species, and even sprouts from seeds are kind of cute.
But I will bet that only a few people will find the baby spring leaves of poison to be cute.
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