English ivy

Plants: Vines
Magnoliopsida > Apiales > Araliaceae > Hedera helix L.
English ivy is an evergreen vine that can grow to 100 ft. (30.5 m) in length. Leaves are dark-green and waxy with palmate veins. Leaf shape is very variable, but commonly occurs as a 3-5 lobed leaf with a heart-shaped base. Flowering (maturity) is triggered by sunlight, such as when the vines climb into taller vegetation. In the late summer mature plants produce terminal clusters of greenish-yellow flowers. Fruits are black and fleshy. English ivy can invade woodlands, fields and other upland areas and is spread by runners. Seeds can also be spread by birds. It can grow both along the ground, where it can displace native understory species, and in the tree canopy, often covering branches and slowly killing trees. English ivy is native to Europe and was introduced into North America by early settlers for ornamental purposes. It continues to be widely planted as an ornamental.

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5395819 Bark

habitat; stonewall; tree methuselah;

Robert Vidéki
5395823 Bark

habitat; stonewall; tree methuselah;

Robert Vidéki
5398321 Bark

trunk

Robert Vidéki
5399185 Bark

tree trunk; Vidéki Csanád

Robert Vidéki
5399186 Bark

tree trunk

Robert Vidéki
5399187 Bark

tree trunk

Robert Vidéki
5395821 Bark

habitat; stonewall; tree methuselah;

Robert Vidéki
2125047 Feature(s) Vine Chris Evans
2125048 Feature(s) Vine Chris Evans
5159058 Feature(s) flowers and fruit Forest & Kim Starr
5159060 Flower(s) bee visiting flowers Forest & Kim Starr
2307146 Flower(s) July James H. Miller
5236006 Flower(s) Richard Old
5342010 Flower(s) Jan Samanek
5342011 Flower(s) Jan Samanek
5342012 Flower(s) Jan Samanek
5404525 Flower(s) Karan A. Rawlins
5404526 Flower(s) Karan A. Rawlins
5405084 Flower(s) Karan A. Rawlins
5405087 Flower(s)

leaf on flowering stem is simple acute ovate

Karan A. Rawlins
5405088 Flower(s) Karan A. Rawlins
9005071 Foliage leaves in July James H. Miller
5405082 Foliage Karan A. Rawlins
5405083 Foliage Karan A. Rawlins
5404520 Foliage Karan A. Rawlins
5404521 Foliage Karan A. Rawlins
5404522 Foliage Karan A. Rawlins
5396232 Foliage

habitat

Robert Vidéki
5396233 Foliage

habitat

Robert Vidéki
5342008 Foliage Jan Samanek
5374210 Foliage Joseph M. DiTomaso
5374211 Foliage

leaf of flowering stem

Joseph M. DiTomaso
5342015 Foliage Jan Samanek
5236004 Foliage Richard Old
5236005 Foliage Richard Old
5342005 Foliage Jan Samanek
5159071 Foliage habit Forest & Kim Starr
5159072 Foliage leaves Forest & Kim Starr
5159062 Foliage leaves Forest & Kim Starr
5162046 Foliage leaves Forest & Kim Starr
5163024 Foliage variegated leaves Forest & Kim Starr
5163025 Foliage variegated leaves Forest & Kim Starr
2307147 Foliage June James H. Miller
5159054 Foliage leaves Forest & Kim Starr
1237027 Foliage Foliage climbing pine tree in September Chuck Bargeron
0016196 Foliage leaves James H. Miller
0016197 Foliage James H. Miller
2125043 Foliage Mature leaves Chris Evans
2125044 Foliage Mature leaves Chris Evans
2125045 Foliage Mature leaves Chris Evans
2125046 Foliage Mature leaves Chris Evans
5159061 Fruit(s) fruits Forest & Kim Starr
5159059 Fruit(s) fruits and leaves Forest & Kim Starr
5159082 Fruit(s) fruits Forest & Kim Starr
5159083 Fruit(s) fruit and leaves Forest & Kim Starr
5159084 Fruit(s) fruiting Forest & Kim Starr
5342006 Fruit(s) Jan Samanek
5342007 Fruit(s) Jan Samanek
5342013 Fruit(s) Jan Samanek
5397901 Fruit(s)

fruit

Robert Vidéki
5397902 Fruit(s)

fruit

Robert Vidéki
5397903 Fruit(s) Robert Vidéki
5398077 Fruit(s)

fruit

Robert Vidéki
9005069 Fruit(s) in January James H. Miller
5405089 Infestation Karan A. Rawlins
9005072 Infestation on ground in July James H. Miller
9005073 Infestation on tree in June James H. Miller
5392189 Infestation

Plant blanket

John M. Randall
5405085 Infestation Karan A. Rawlins
5405086 Infestation Karan A. Rawlins
5342016 Infestation Jan Samanek
5344053 Infestation Nancy Fraley
5344054 Infestation Nancy Fraley
5374208 Infestation Joseph M. DiTomaso
5162045 Infestation climbing Eucalyptus Forest & Kim Starr
5331053 Infestation

November, 2005; Infesting Pecan Tree, Columbus County, NC, silouete against evening sky

Randy Westbrooks
5282041 Infestation Dan Clark
5162047 Infestation habit Forest & Kim Starr
2132030 Infestation David J. Moorhead
2308025 Infestation Invading roadside park in September Chuck Bargeron
1346062 Infestation Chris Evans
1346064 Infestation Chris Evans
1238024 Infestation English ivy covering a large oak. Laurens, SC. Randy Cyr
1238025 Infestation Randy Cyr
1346047 Infestation Chris Evans
1346048 Infestation Chris Evans
1346052 Infestation Chris Evans
1346053 Infestation Chris Evans
0580095 climbing tree Jil M. Swearingen
0580096 climbing tree Jil M. Swearingen
0580099 Theodore Roosevelt Island Jil M. Swearingen
1148100 Plant(s) USDA APHIS PPQ Archive
1346057 Plant(s) Chris Evans
2125049 Plant(s) Chris Evans
5159053 Plant(s) on Eucalyptus Forest & Kim Starr
5159063 Plant(s) habit Forest & Kim Starr
5170024 Plant(s) A large, old stem growing up oak (Quercus petraea). Ogwen Woods, Bethesda, N. Wales, UK. Since sheep relish ivy, there are suspicions that this one got above their browse in a period of agricultural recession, maybe the 1920's. The fresh growth on the left is ungrazed because the wall behind was recently repaired. Francis Gwyn Jones
5204024 Plant(s) Pedro Tenorio-Lezama
5159085 Plant(s) branch with fruit Forest & Kim Starr
5159073 Plant(s) habit border Forest & Kim Starr
5159081 Plant(s) habit Forest & Kim Starr
5374209 Plant(s)

fruiting stem.

Joseph M. DiTomaso
5404527 Plant(s) Karan A. Rawlins
5395822 Plant(s)

habitat; stonewall; tree methuselah;

Robert Vidéki
5404523 Plant(s) Karan A. Rawlins
5404524 Plant(s) Karan A. Rawlins
5395817 Plant(s)

habituat; stonewall

Robert Vidéki
5395818 Plant(s)

habitat; stonewall; tree methuselah;

Robert Vidéki
5342009 Plant(s) Jan Samanek
5395820 Plant(s)

habitat; stonewall; tree methuselah;

Robert Vidéki
5396253 Plant(s)

foliage

Robert Vidéki
5396627 Plant(s)

clinging root

Robert Vidéki
9005070 Plant(s) in July James H. Miller
5398320 Seed(s)

seed

Robert Vidéki
5307052 Seed(s) Steve Hurst
5342014 Seedling(s) Jan Samanek
2307149 Twig(s)/Shoot(s) July James H. Miller
2307150 Twig(s)/Shoot(s) July James H. Miller
9005075 Twig(s)/Shoot(s) young stem in July James H. Miller


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