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Kudzu is an invasive plant species in the United States, introduced from Asia with devastating environmental consequences, [1] earning it the nickname "the vine that ate the South". It has been spreading rapidly in the Southern United States , "easily outpacing the use of herbicide, spraying, and mowing, as well increasing the costs of these ...
Kudzu (/ ˈ k uː d z u, ˈ k ʊ d-, ˈ k ʌ d-/), also called Japanese arrowroot or Chinese arrowroot, [1] [2] is a group of climbing, coiling, and trailing deciduous perennial vines native to much of East Asia, Southeast Asia, and some Pacific islands. [2] It is invasive in many parts of the world, primarily North America.
Parthenocissus quinquefolia, known as Virginia creeper, Victoria creeper, five-leaved ivy, or five-finger, is a species of flowering vine in the grape family, Vitaceae.It is native to eastern and central North America, from southeastern Canada and the eastern United States west to Manitoba and Utah, and south to eastern Mexico and Guatemala.
Porcelain berry or porcelain vine, also called amur peppervine, has pretty pinkish-purple-blue berries on a vigorous, woody, tendril-climbing vine, somewhat resembling wild grape vines. It can ...
Kudzu, a Japanese invasive vine originally brought to North Carolina in the late 1800s to help farmers battle erosion, spreads like wildfire and takes over resources that anything else needs to grow.
Those darn invasive plants can really take a ... "Oriental bittersweet can be observed growing as a brushy groundcover to a height of a few feet or as a climbing vine on tall trees where the vines ...
The perennial plant forms creeping mats. The flowering shoots are ascending. The fleshy, delicate leaves grow smaller towards the tip of the shoot. The leaf blade is oval to lanceolate, 1-3.5 centimeters long and 0.6-1 centimeter wide. In the distal leaves, the blades are narrower than the open, spread leaf sheaths.
Parthenocissus inserta is a climbing and sprawling woody vine , reaching lengths of 20 metres (66 ft), using small branched tendrils with twining tips. [2] The leaves are palmately compound, composed of five leaflets, each leaflet reaching 13 centimetres (5 in) in length and 7 cm broad. The leaflets have a coarsely toothed margin. [2]