Native Plants
Digital Herbaria
Parthenocissus quinquefolia
Parthenocissus quinquefolia (L.) Planch.
Virginia Creeper
Vitaceae (Grape Family)
USDA Symbol: PAQU2USDA Native Status: L48 (N), CAN (N)
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Specimen & Label Data
Parthenocissus quinquefolia
Virginia Creeper, Woodbine
Vitaceae
Location: S side of East-West path & 30 m W of Oakwell Farms Pky--Oakwell Farms.Latitude: 0.000000
Habitat: Clamboring on shrubs & climbing by means of adhesive disks on Quercus, Ulmus, Celtis & Carya. More than half shade. Moist, alkaline, soil.
Description: Woody vine. Leaves alternate, long petioled (14 cm). Leaflets 5, palmately arranged, with short petioles, about 4 x 8 cm (variable), elliptic, acuminate at both ends, coarsely dentate on apical 2/3. Cymes opposite leaves and terminal. Flowers many. Fruit not seen.
County: Bexar
Collector: Harry Cliffe
Collection Date: Jun 29, 1987
Specimen number: 238
Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 0466
Accession Date: Jul 27, 1993
Accession Number: 36
Annotations: SCFXB