What is this plant if it isn't poison ivy? (or is it poison ivy?)

Oops. Sorry about that picture placement. You get the idea, though.

Doesn’t look quite like poison oak to me.

It looks like Virginia Creeper

Definitely not poison ivy.

:)

not poison ivy

Maybe it’s Virginia creeper. But definitely not poison ivy. I googled “poison ivy lookalikes” and the site I went to mentioned VA creeper can have groups of 3 leaves in addition to the usual groups of 5.

Three leaves, let it be

Poison oak or ivy

Brad Rogers is correct about the photo in the top left;  it’s Virginia Creeper. Not a problem.

The 2 plants commonly grow together, intertwining randomly. You’d have to wear a hazmat suit or something to sort them out.

Notice the difference in the edges of the 2 plants. The “tooth” pattern is slightly different, and also the tips of the leaves are more elongated on the creeper.

Brad Rogers – Mount Rogers

any relation?

:)

+1 to Virginia Creeper & poison Ivy living in harmony with eachother. They are both native east of the Mississippi, both grow aggressively during the summer, and both look spectacularly beautiful in the autumn.

Nice pictures Matt!  I probably have the two plants twining together somewhere within 100 feet of where I sit typing.

I let a few Virginia Creeper vine “go” every year just for the autumn color. One of the few reliable sources of fall color here on the sand-bar.