Wandering about the area behind my house & I was struck by the variety of vines growing. Figured I'd quiz y'all to test your knowledge. No cheating, internet points awarded this evening! Good luck!
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Mustang Grape

Poison Ivy
Poison Oak
Poison elm
Poison pine
Poison Maple
Poison Pecan

Apache said:

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Wandering about the area behind my house & I was struck by the variety of vines growing. Figured I'd quiz y'all to test your knowledge. No cheating, internet points awarded this evening! Good luck!

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Greenbrier
Poison oak

Poison ivy

Greenbrier/Smilax in the first pic. F*** that stuff.

Apache said:

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Wandering about the area behind my house & I was struck by the variety of vines growing. Figured I'd quiz y'all to test your knowledge. No cheating, internet points awarded this evening! Good luck!
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1. Greenbriar
2. Potato Vine?
3. Poison Oak
4. Cross vine?
5. Mustang Grape
6. Pepper vine?
7. Poison Ivy
8. Passionflower?
9. Morning Glory?

Edit to remove the photos and reverse my 8&9 guesses.

txags92 said:

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Apache said:

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Wandering about the area behind my house & I was struck by the variety of vines growing. Figured I'd quiz y'all to test your knowledge. No cheating, internet points awarded this evening! Good luck!
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Smilax bona-nox
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Toxicodendron diversilobum
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Bignonia capreolata
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Vitis rotundifolia
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Parthenocissus quinquefolia
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Toxicodendron radicans,
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1. Greenbriar
6. Virginia Creeper
7. Poison Ivy

That's all I know.

8. Looks like Carolina Snailseed (Cocculus carolinus)

There are a couple that haven't been guessed or guessed wrong.
I'll give y'all a little more time.

(These are in Travis County btw, most are found everywhere East of I-35)

3 looks like what I've heard variously called goat vine or pepper vine.

1 is greenbrier also called catsclaw.

2. Milkweed Vine (Matelea reticulata)?

7 is poison Ivy of course.

4 is a grape, not sure which it is called.

6 Virginia creeper

OK y'all finally got them all.
1. Greenbriar. This stuff sucks but deer love it. Hell to get rid of, comes from a potato looking bulb waaay under ground. It's edible.
https://www.foragingtexas.com/2008/08/greenbriar.html

2. Milkweed Vine. In the milkweed family but Monarchs don't utilize it. This one has several species, they all look pretty much the same to me.
https://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=MAED

3. Cow-Itch (Cissus incisa) There are a few vines that share this name.
https://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/ornamentals/nativeshrubs/cissusincis.htm
Always confused for poison Ivy, key is that it doesn't have red stems.
What is usually called Peppervine (Ampelopsis arborea) is this:
https://www.foragingtexas.com/2008/09/peppervine.html

4. Crossvine. Great ornamental & evergreen which is nice. Beautiful orange flowers.

5. Heart Leaf Ampelopsis. (Grape family. I'll give this one a pass. I thought it was a regular Mustang grape until I saw the fruit... small & non-edible)
https://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/ornamentals/nativeshrubs/ampelopsiscardat.htm

6. Virginia Creeper. Good stuff. Leaves of 5, let it thrive.

7. Poison Ivy. OB's favorite.

8. Carolina Snailseed. This stuff is a pain in the butt to get rid of. Huge underground rhizomes & the vines pop up all along it.

9. Morning Glory. Nice flowers but weedy as well.

I didn't know 9 was a morning glory! It pops up everywhere in my landscaping in southwest Houston.

Greenbrier and Carolina Snailseed are worse for me, though, because of the rhizomes that seem to never end.

I've been on this board long enough to know the only way to kill it is with fire for all of them.

Try these. Some have been mentioned of course.

If 7 is poison ivy it is the least typical specimen I've seen to date. The leaves are much to deeply and frequently furrowed. And the color is a very dark green. Y'all sure that isn't poison oak?

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8. Carolina Snailseed. This stuff is a pain in the butt to get rid of. Huge underground rhizomes & the vines pop up all along it.

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Also grows about 6 inches a day...DFW seems to be the perfect biome for it

I'm glad I came across this thread. Thanks for posting. My wife and I are broke out in a major rash (worst ever) after working on our land last week, cutting vines, brush, undergrowth all from a heavily wooded area in Robertson County (40 miles north of College Station).

I'd post pics but it's gross.

It started at the top of my head where I was wearing a ball cap and many times the cap fell off in the brush/thick forest area while trimming all of what looks like darn near everything you show. After my head, came the neck, then everywhere I sweat (torso, waist line, legs). As if the body absorbed it in an allergic reaction and then systemically. Doctors assume it was "some kind of contact reaction". On steroids, etc. but it is nasty.

Which of these pics could have caused this?

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If 7 is poison ivy it is the least typical specimen I've seen to date. The leaves are much to deeply and frequently furrowed. And the color is a very dark green. Y'all sure that isn't poison oak?

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I was thinking poison oak as well, as the leaf resembled an oak leaf.

Y'all may be right... it may be Poison Oak. Poison Oak & Ivy are extremely close cousins. The leaf margins of Poison Ivy are highly variable & can look very similar to poison oak, especially the subspecies found around my area.

Honestly, I never really bothered to split hairs & learn the difference as they both have the same toxicity.

Poison Ivy would be the most likely culprit to me. If you're allergic to it, and wind up in it for any length of time, especially sweating, wiping for face/ body, etc of sweat, and don't wash yourself for hours, you're toast! Then come home and handle and laundry all the clothes that have the oils all over them.

Sounds like the stuff of nightmares to me!!! I feel for you and you're wife. Steroid shots, pills and creams are your friend for sure!

It's poison ivy.

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If 7 is poison ivy it is the least typical specimen I've seen to date. The leaves are much to deeply and frequently furrowed. And the color is a very dark green. Y'all sure that isn't poison oak?

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I was thinking poison oak as well, as the leaf resembled an oak leaf.

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That was my thought as well. Doesn't look like typical poison ivy leaf configuration but poison oak I would believe

Y'all calling out poison oak , you live in Texas right? I've worked outside doing veg ID for 10+ years and have never actually knowingly encountered poison oak in Texas, CA yes.

Not very common through most of the state.

I've never seen those plant range maps, thanks for posting.
Like I said, it's clearly poison ivy & not poison oak you idiots.

About the only time living in West or South Texas has ever appealed to me... I HATE poison ivy.

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7. Poison Ivy. OB's favorite.

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The yellowlab of flora

1. Trumpet Vine. (This stuff goes berserk)
2. Cow-Itch
3. Snailseed
4. This looks like horseherb to me. Can't think of a yellow vine that looks close to that off the top of my head.
5. Grape species

Agree on horseherb. It can get long and scraggly but isn't a vine.