Looks like virginia creeper to me. The two have a habit of growing together here, the ivy often hiding under the creeper leaves. 5 leaves is not poison ivy even though the color is right for young PI leaves.
papadave, yes...it's not PI....gooder. The rest of ya hawdahs look as though you're displaying PO....poison Oak, for short (for the uninitiated).... The PI I grew up scratching from are smaller leaves (same 3 shiny leaf count), and not lobed or "thumb" shaped.
Yep - pretty much what mine looked like, including the reddish plants. I also had some very large vines which can get huge trunks on them and the only way to kill them is to cut entirely thru the trunk in a couple of places (and separate them so they don't fuse back together with their sap). Anyway - kill that stuff before it overtakes everything!
It will get treated if the rain lets up. We also have invasive bamboo to work on. It grows back up in days.
Usually, poison ivy has glossy leaves. Found some the other day growing up the locust tree in the front yard. Sprayed it with PI killer. Sometimes takes two treatments.
Amazing just how many different applications vinegar and water have.... Used to order it for a cousin of mine whenever he was being a pain and we were out drinking! "Three beers and a vinegar and water for Roger, please!"
I have the nuclear option type - I treated 3 times in spring, and every 10-14 days during the summer and more in the fall. I rotated brands and even tried the vinegar/dish soap homemade - which seriously did nothing at all. Roundup would knock it back and give it the wilts for a week but not kill it. Some of it I finally gave up and covered with plastic bags (pellet bags) then landscape fabric then bark mulch. If it grows thru that I am moving back to Kansas!
I hate the stuff. Get the rash every spring during turkey season and usually in the fall during deer season. Finding our new house has it too. I want to burn it out of revenge but know that's a bad idea. I have some old two stroke fuel I'll dump on some (without igniting) and see if that works.
So I tried to doing elimination as part of the search. I don't think it is poison ivy or oak, ginseng or Virginia creeper. The 3 leaves the 2 on the same stalk seams to be throwing everything off. The one stalk even has one leaf coming off. Ginseng and creeper have the 5 leaves but terminate in the center. The ivys do not go from 3 to 2 leaves. I'm lost with this one.
We have a hit! Was looking kinda like ginseng so started digging around for look alikes. Wild sarsaparilla The leaves can be red on young plants. "Wild sarsaparilla (Aralia nudicaulis) wears bronze for its new spring coat, but its leaves will green up quickly. Wild sarsaparilla grows all through our forests and is a common sight. The plant sets flower buds quickly just as its leaflets have unfurled, and often before they’ve changed from their early deep bronze to green. In botanical terms the “leaves” are actually one leaf with a whorl of 3 compound leaves, which have groups of 3-7 leaflets. People sometimes confuse the plant with poison ivy before the flowers appear because of the “leaves of three” as in leaves of three, let them be. One easy way to tell the difference is by looking for a woody stem; poison ivy has one but this plant does not."
So I was patrolling my yard yesterday afternoon looking for remnants of my major offensive maneuvers last year. Here is a good example of how Poison Ivy and other plants can look nearly the same. To the right, toward front is PI. The left front is NOT poison ivy - neither are some of those others that have 3 leaves. There are a couple more PI plants outside the field of view. This is an area that had zero poison ivy last year although there was some about 10 feet behind the fence (which is still my property so I sprayed the bejeebers out of all summer long) This is a single poison ivy plant that is showing some reddish tint. It is in an area that was heavily bombarded with poisons last year as I was trying to keep the stuff from getting in amongst the Lily-of-the-Valley (the other leaves) in the picture.
I hate poison ivy. Really. Did some light weed whacking around the house and wound up with it in between my pinky and ring finger on my left hand an a streak on the right side of my forehead. I didn't even get into the woods. Must've hit some sprouts in a shady spot.
