What is this?

[Gardening with Rabbits]

The neighbors gave DH some flower pots, pile of used lumber

and several other treasures when they moved last winter. We thought this was just a pot of dirt, but this sprouted. It did have a stem that was dormant through the winter. What is it?

 

[thistlebloom]

That's Virginia creeper. It makes a good ground cover for a large space, or you can train it up a mature tree.
It can be rampant, but cuts back easily enough. It turns a pretty crimson in the fall and goes dormant in the winter.

 

[Carol Dee]

I agree with @thistlebloom (Earlier today my DH identified it at our lot as poison ivy!) LOL

 

[seedcorn]

Anything that resembles poison ivy gets treated here like poison ivy.

 

[Smart Red]

Five leaves, not three. That's where the resemblance to poison ivy starts and ends.

 

[Carol Dee]

Five leaves, not three. That's where the resemblance to poison ivy starts and ends.

YEP, but he has no reaction to it so he pays it no mind! I on the other hand freak out as I am highly susceptible.

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

Well, thank you. I have no idea what to do with it.

 

[Nyboy]

Anything that resembles poison ivy gets treated here like poison ivy.

DITTO

 

[so lucky]

Around here, poison ivy was identified with the 3 leaves, and if it had 5, it was called poison oak. I have googled poison oak, and the pics of it look like oak leaves.
Regardless, a lifetime of fearing 5-leaved plants like that will keep me from ever having it in my yard on purpose.

 

[thistlebloom]

Around here, poison ivy was identified with the 3 leaves, and if it had 5, it was called poison oak. I have googled poison oak, and the pics of it look like oak leaves.
Regardless, a lifetime of fearing 5-leaved plants like that will keep me from ever having it in my yard on purpose.

The poison oak I have painful experience with is three leaved... it's image is burned into my frontal lobes. or wherever you store those unfortunate images.