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Thicket Creeper

Parthenocissus inserta

Also called False virginia creeper, Grape Woodbine, Woodbine

Thicket Creeper
Photo: cassi saari, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Vitaceae (Grape family)
Grows as
Climber
Safety
Toxic
Native range
Canada to Mexico (Coahuila)
Climate
temperate

About

Parthenocissus inserta (syn. Parthenocissus vitacea), also known as thicket creeper, false Virginia creeper, woodbine, or grape woodbine, is a woody vine native to North America. Contact with it may cause dermatitis.

Where it grows

It can be found in southeastern Canada (west to southern Manitoba) and a large area of the United States, from Maine west to Montana and south to New Jersey and Missouri in the east, and Texas to Arizona in the west. It is becoming invasive in northeast Louisiana. It is present in California, but it may be an introduced species that far west. It is introduced in Europe.

Other Parthenocissus plants

Diverse Leaved Creeper · Silvervein creeper · Parthenocissus laetevirens · Virginia creeper · Himalayan Woodbine · Japanese Creeper · Creeper

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Parthenocissus inserta by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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