Virginia Creeper

(Parthenocissus quinquefolia)

Characteristics

Leaves	Flowers	Fruit

Growing habits: High-climbing, deciduous, perennial woody vine

Root anatomy: Fibrous roots from taproot, develops large woody rootstock

Leaf anatomy: Leaves alternately arranged, palmately compound, petiolate, 3-7 leaflets but averaging 5, ovate-elliptic or obovate, many tendrils with adhesive disks

Reproduction: Inflorescences panicles of cymes in terminal and upper stem axils, hundreds of flowers, 5 petals, separate, yellow-green

^{References: Weeds of the South by Charles T. Bryson and Michael S. DeFelice}