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FA Exhibit ID-010

Three vines on your fence: Virginia creeper, English ivy, poison ivy

Three equal-weight public-domain botanical specimens compare Virginia creeper's five leaflets, juvenile English ivy's one simple lobed leaf, and eastern poison-ivy's three leaflets. A safety banner says not to handle an unknown three-leaflet vine.
FA Exhibit ID-010. Three vines on your fence: Virginia creeper, English ivy, poison ivy. Morphology from USFS FEIS PARQUI, HEDHEL and TOXSPP. Safety guidance from NIOSH 2010-118. Plates: Britton & Brown 1913 and Thomé 1885, public domain. Identification only — no flammability claim. Confirm uncertain material with a regional key or a botanist. CC BY 4.0.

Technical review: Grayson Graham. Last verified 2026-08-25. JSON

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