You do not want to just have a sketchy idea of how to recognize this baby!! These 2 drawings will give you a good idea of the shape of the triplet of leaves. But you should be able to recognize it by color and and texture as well. Poison Ivy is a vine, and it NORMALLY grows like a vine! There are plenty of other things that can have three leaves, but do not grow like poison ivy. Virginia creeper can have just 3 leaves when it is a very new sprout. Beans and their relatives may have 3 leaves but are not a vine. Very small maple sprouts may look a lot like a small poison ivy vine. Then blackberries as well will have 3 leaves, but the are jagged edged and fuzzy, and grow on a cane, not a vine. What else is there that can make you think poison ivy??
Another sketch of poison ivy. Everyone wants you to show 'em what it looks like, so....maybe this will help. Three leaves, each with a thumb- most the time.
Oh my goodness. Maybe i should avoid this as well as oak trees. When I lived in Colorado, I said I mmissed green and growing things. But this is NOT the kind I'm talking about! That and oak mites.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, thanks for the lesson again by drawing what this plant really looks like.