IDentifying characteristics:
- Evergreen alternate leaves
- Climbing vine w/aerial rootlets
- tri-lobed juvenile leaves w/white veins
Hedera helix, English ivy
July 13, 2009 at 12:04 pm (A Plant-a-Day(ish), Invasives)
Tags: alternate, broad leaf evergreen, climber, Invasives, lobed leaf
Wisteria floribunda, Japanese wisteria
July 12, 2009 at 10:21 pm (A Plant-a-Day(ish), Invasives)
Tags: Acuminate tip, alternate, climber, deciduous, Invasives, pinnately compound
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- Engulfing the wood shed
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- Branch
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- Nodes and leaflets
Identifying characteristics:
1. Vines twine clockwise (see photo of shed, twining to right of shed)
2. Petiole flattened at base
3. Alternate pinnately compound leaves w/13 – 19 leaflets, rounded base and acuminate tip
Hydrangea anomala subsp. petiolaris, Climbing hydrangea
July 12, 2009 at 1:15 pm (A Plant-a-Day(ish))
Tags: climber, Exfoliating bark, lustrous leaves, Opposite, serrate, simple leaf
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- Vine
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- Aerial rootlets
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- Leaf
Identifying characteristics:
- Opposite simple serrated leaves
- Root-like “holdfasts” along stems
- Exfoliating bark
- Vertical main stems and horizontal laterals
Toxicodendron radicans, poison ivy
July 11, 2009 at 3:34 pm (A Plant-a-Day(ish), Invasives)
Tags: alternate, climber, Invasives, pinnately compound
Poison ivy patch
Identifying characteristics:
1. 3 leaflets
2. alternate leaves
3. no thorns
fruit stalks
July 10, 2009 at 6:43 pm (A Plant-a-Day(ish))
Tags: alternate, climber, entire, Invasives
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- Flower stalk and branching
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- Red petioles and axillary buds
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- Leaf front
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- Leaf back
Celastrus orbiculatus, Chinese bittersweet
June 28, 2009 at 7:39 pm (A Plant-a-Day(ish), Invasives)
Tags: alternate, climber, Invasives, Obovate leaf, simple leaf
Identifying characteristics:
- Alternate leaves
- Simple, crenate leaf
- Lustrous, rich green leaf
- Obovate shape
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