escapes: Virginia creeper
Virginia creeper, also call woodbine, thicket creeper and, in French vinge vierge, is a climbing vine with adhesive discs. Its leaves are palmately five-fingered and turn bright red in autumn. The plant has small purple fruit, poisonous to eat. The vine is common around abandoned homesteads where it persists or escapes to local woodlands.
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Virginia creeper
Parthenocissus quinquefolia (L.) Planch.
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In woods
on Whites Mountain
woodbine
climbs the ash.
Persistent escape
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from homesteads
long-gone.
Thicket creeper
navigates itself
to better ground,
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higher trees.
Thick rhizomes,
adhesive discs.
Five-fingered leaves
spread to cover
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every inch of bark.
Maximize
exposure to sun.
Ancestral creepers
once draped
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zig-zag cedar fences
in autumn scarlet.
Caught the attention
of farmers’ wives
on community rounds.
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All my best,
Jane
nichepoetryandprose 
very interesting and informative
On Wed, Aug 8, 2018, 7:00 AM nichepoetryandprose wrote:
> jane tims posted: “Virginia creeper, also call woodbine, thicket creeper > and, in French vinge vierge, is a climbing vine with adhesive discs. Its > leaves are palmately five-fingered and turn bright red in autumn. The plant > has small purple fruit, poisonous to eat. The vine i” >
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glenna porter
August 8, 2018 at 3:40 pm
We have a big Virginia creeper on our power pole. Dug it up from bank of St John River in 1980.
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jane tims
August 8, 2018 at 3:58 pm