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Parthenocissus quinquefolia
Parthenocissus quinquefolia
- Botanic Family
- Vitaceae
- Author
- (Linnaeus) Planchon
Common Names
- Virginia Creeper
- American Woodbine
- American Ivy
- Woodbine
- Five-leaved Ivy
- False Grape
- Wu ye di jin (Pinyin)
- Amerika-zuta (Japan)
- Vigne Vierge
- Seven-leaved creeper
Geographical Habitats
- Manitoba
- New Brunswick
- Nova Scotia
- Ontario
- Prince Edward Island
- Quebec
- Saskatchewan - Canada. Alabama
- Arkansas
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- District of Colombia
- Delaware
- Florida
- Georgia
- Iowa
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachussetts
- Minesota
- Montana
- Missouri
- Mississssippi
- North Carolina
- Nebraska
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New York
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Virginia
- Vermont
- Wisconsin
- West Virginia - USA. to Mexico
- Guatemala
Natural Habitats
- Riverside
- streamside thickets
- woodland
- floodplain forest
Flowering Times
- Summer Jun-Jul (USA) Apr (Texas)
Fruiting Times
Large high-climbing glabrous woody deciduous tendril liana with 5-9 branched tendrils tipped with adherent discs & aerial roots on stems, climbing to 10m, warty branches. 3-7 to 3-5lobed palmate coarsely serrate leaves mucronately toothed turning brilliant red in Autumn, fruit blue-black to 12mm across. small greenish-purple flowers in pendulous panicles or corymbose racemes to 200mm, petals to 2.7mm, leaves glabrous or pilose
Further References
- Rehder 1934
- Bean 1950
- Menninger 1970
- Bailey 1976
- Krussmann 1976
- van der Spuy 1976
- Huxley 1992
- Nicholls 1995
- FOC
- RHS A-Z
- GWC 1997
- Neotrop
- Bodkin
- FOG
- The Plant List 2
- USDA
- Botanicus
- JAA
- FOSEUS
- FRM
- USNH