What is that plant?

[chiques chicks]

Poison ivy, young plant
Mature vines growing on a tree, vegitation way overhead


Not poison, this is Virginia creeper. It is invasive. To my knowledge, it is goat safe, not sure about other animals.

 

[chiques chicks]

Mile a minute. Aka tearthumb. Edible, but high in oxcylic (sp?) Acid. Has barbs and grows very fast, hence the names. Very invasive. Annual.

 

[Baymule]

You call it Virginia Creeper, we call it Poison Oak and I break out terribly from it. Oh yes, it is too poisonous. I hate the stuff. Yes, it is invasive and hard to kill out. Naturally it is all over our place. The sheep are knocking it out and I cut the vines on the tree trunks.

 

[Baymule]

Green briars. Very thorny and invasive. They are edible, only the briars with tendrils are edible. I snap off the tips and eat them raw all the time. I have sautéed them in butter with garlic and they are good. These might be the same as what you are calling Mile A Minute. We chop them off at the ground and pull them out of the trees. The sheep love them.

 

[Baymule]

I knew I had a picture of the bulbs the green briars sprout from.

 

[ldawntaylor]

if you are referring to the plant with the toothed edges, i *think* that is a young oak seedling. It may be poison oak, as i am not familiar with that in my area.

It doesn't look like the scrub oak we have around here. Perhaps poison oak is right. I'll try to get a picture of a scrub oak leaf for comparison tomorrow.

What ever it is it hasn't done any harm to the goats yet.

 

[chiques chicks]

That green briar doesn't grow in these parts, or I haven't encountered it. Our mile a minute is a very shallow rooted annual that gets shiny black berries.

 

[chiques chicks]

Since I've never been allergic to poison ivy I really don't know what it looks like. I know the saying "leaves of three, leave it be" as being a way to remember what poison ivy looks like. I took this picture today and I'm wondering...

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I know one of the plants in the picture is wood sorrel (sour grass). But, the other does kind of look like an ivy plant of some kind.

I know goats at least can eat poison ivy just fine. And that drinking the milk doesn't cause any problems for a person who is allergic to poison ivy.

Just not really sure what it looks like.

I looked up poison oak. This may be it. We don't have the poison oak locally, just the ivy.

 

[chiques chicks]

You call it Virginia Creeper, we call it Poison Oak and I break out terribly from it. Oh yes, it is too poisonous. I hate the stuff. Yes, it is invasive and hard to kill out. Naturally it is all over our place. The sheep are knocking it out and I cut the vines on the tree trunks.

Further research indicates virginia creeper contains oxalate that may irritate some people. It is a different irritant than poison oak and ivy.

In some areas it is grown as a ornamental.

 

[Baymule]

Grown as an ornamental??