5 Leaf Poison Ivy Vine. Eastern poison ivy (Toxicodendron radicans) is a woody, perennial vine or small shrub that can be found in fields, pastures, woodlands, farms and home landscapes. Poison ivy is the only one that always has three leaves, one on each side and one in the center.
Toxicodendron radicans, commonly known as eastern poison ivy or poison ivy, is an allergenic Asian and Eastern North American flowering plant in the genus Toxicodendron. Leaf bottoms are pale, mint green in color and leaves are serrated. As a vine, it attaches itself to trees or other structures with hairy, aerial roots borne along the stem.
If you cut them, anything above the cut will die.
In each set of leaflets, the middle leaflet has a longer stem than the two Thick, hairy poison ivy vine growing up a tree Photo: Ohio State Weed Lab,The Ohio State University, Bugwood.org.
Learn how to identify poison To further complicate matters, poison ivy can be a ground cover plant, a climbing vine, or a trailing vine. The following link contains a useful guide in the identification of these poisonous nuisances. Nearly everyone in our part of the world is familiar with the effects of Poison Ivy, colorfully described We hope this gallery will help you correctly identify Poison Ivy, but the most important thing to remember is this: if you're not absolutely sure what it is.