I'm (too ) familiar with poison ivy, and I am positive the Vine on the right is poison ivy that is getting way bigger than I should have allowed.
But two steps away, there is THIS vine, pictured on the left. Is THAT poison ivy too? Note the paler color and serrated leaf edges. Poison ivy gets some occasional breaks in the smooth leaf edge, but mostly not repeated and not in a regular pattern like these I think? The red stems are striking, but I guess the vine on the right has that too....
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What do you think, applestar? Was I right?
https://www.purplebutterflies.com/lookalikes.html :
Box Elder is a tree, but when it is young, it fools a lot of people with its 3 leaves and red stems.
How to tell that it's not poison ivy: The biggest giveaway with box elder is how the leaves are arranged on the stem. Box elder leaves are arranged opposite each other on the stem, therefore, it can't be poison ivy since ivy leaves are alternate.
That site has a couple more box elder pictures.
https://www.purplebutterflies.com/lookalikes.html :
Box Elder is a tree, but when it is young, it fools a lot of people with its 3 leaves and red stems.
How to tell that it's not poison ivy: The biggest giveaway with box elder is how the leaves are arranged on the stem. Box elder leaves are arranged opposite each other on the stem, therefore, it can't be poison ivy since ivy leaves are alternate.
That site has a couple more box elder pictures.