Common Names

• Virginia Creeper
• Wood Bine

   " The Virginia creeper, a native deciduous vine, thrives in a moist soil in full sunlight or partial shade. So fast-growing that it can be invasive, it climbs trees and walls of buildings and covers trelliese, arbors, and fences."⁴ 

• Climbing by means of adhesive disks of the 3-8 branched tendrils
• Leaflets 0.4-1.5 dm. long
• Cymes usually approximate and with prolonged central axis
• Forming a paniculate inflorescence with solitary ascending to divergent lower branch and 25-200 or more flowers
• Fruits 5-7 mm. in diameter
• 1-3 seeded (see 3 )

    Virginia Creeper with flowers (Photographed by UGA herbarium)

       Virginia Creeper in Autumn Color (see 4 )
 
 
Distribution

    Fla. to Tex. and Mex., n. to se. Me., s. N.H., Vt., sw. Que., N.Y., Ind., Ill. and Minn.

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