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Are these BOTH poison ivy?

I'm (too :roll: ) 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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I would treat as if it were

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I'm thinking the one on the left may be a box elder tree baby seedling.
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box elder is a kind of maple that was very weedy and prolific where I was in Cincinnati. Less so here, although it is around. Box elder babies have fooled me more than once into thinking they were poison ivy!

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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.

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Oooh! I will have to go look at it today and check the leaf nodes! :bouncey:

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:clap: rainbowgardener :clap:

OPPOSITE LEAVES on the plant in question -- which I.D.'s it as BOX ELDER -- to the left !

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It was hard to take a clear photo, but the poison ivy on the right DOES have alternate leaf nodes.

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To me, the one on the left looks like boxelder, possibly mixed with strawberry (or false strawberry). On the right, poison ivy, also mixed with strawberry.

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Thanks for the confirmation MarkP2 :D



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