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Virginia Creeper
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Vitales Family: Vitaceae Genus: Parthenocissus Species: P. quinquefolia
Binomial name
Parthenocissus quinquefolia (L.) Planch,

Virginia creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia) is a woody vine native to the East Coast of the United States and Canada. It is a prolific climber to great heights, in the wild frequently seen covering telephone poles or trees, which it can eventually kill. When grown near buildings, it adheres to the walls so tightly that it often cannot be removed without damaging the surface. Nevertheless, it is grown as an ornamental plant, because of its deep red to burgundy fall foliage. Virginia creeper climbing dead or dying tree From http://www. ... Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Divisions Green algae land plants (embryophytes) non-vascular embryophytes Hepatophyta - liverworts Anthocerophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses vascular plants (tracheophytes) seedless vascular plants Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongue ferns seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering... Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also angiosperms or Magnoliophyta) are one of the major groups of modern plants, comprising those that produce seeds in specialized reproductive organs called flowers, where the ovulary or carpel is enclosed. ... Orders see text Dicotyledons or dicots are flowering plants whose seed contains two embryonic leaves or cotyledons. ... Genera See text The Vitaceae (or Vitidaceae) are a family of dicots including the grape and Virginia creeper. ... Genera Acareosperma Ampelocissus Ampelopsis (peppervine) Cayratia Cissus (treebind, treebine) Clematicissus Cyphostemma Nothocissus Parthenocissus (creeper) Pterisanthes Pterocissus Rhoicissus Tetrastigma Vitis (grape) Vua The Vitaceae (or Vitidaceae) are a family of dicots including the grape and Virginia creeper. ... In biology, binomial nomenclature is a standard convention used for naming species. ... A painting of Carolus Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as Carl von Linné (   listen?), and who wrote under the Latinized name Carolus Linnaeus (May 23, 1707 – January 10, 1778), was a Swedish botanist who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of taxonomy. ... The term vine was originally a term for the plant on which grapes grew, from the word for wine (Greek oinos), for which grapes were grown. ... An ornamental is a plant variety that is grown for its beauty (in its end use), rather than commercial or other value. ...

The plant blooms in late spring with small greenish flowers, which mature in late summer or early fall into small hard purplish-black berries. The plant clings to smooth surfaces using small tendrils that grow into strongly adhesive pads 5mm in size. Leaves are compound, comprised of three or five leaflets (three on younger vines) joined from a central point on the leafstalk, and can be up to a foot (30 cm) across. The five toothed leaflets on older vines makes it easy to distinguish from poison ivy, which has three leaflets with smooth edges. Binomial name Toxicodendron radicans (L.) Kuntze Poison-ivy (Toxicodendron radicans or Rhus toxicodendron), in the family Anacardiaceae, is a woody vine that is well-known for its ability to produce urushiol, a skin irritant which for most people will cause an agonizing, itching rash. ...