USEFUL WILD PLANTS 



Poison Ivy is very variable in habit, either a low, 

 upright bush, or a vine climbing by aerial rootlets 



Poison Ivy 

 (Rhus Toxicodendron) 



over fences and far up into the crowns of treesJ 

 It has leaves of three short-stalked leaflets, and 



T Some botanists prefer to treat Poison Ivy as of two species — ^the 

 climber being designated Rhus radicans. 



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