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- noun A
woody vine plant in the familyAnacardiaceae well-known for its ability to produceurushiol , a skin irritant that causes anitching rash for most people.
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Kimberly Janeway | e-mail | TwitterPhoto courtesy of www. poison-ivy.org
Itch Alert: Poison ivy seems to be growing faster and with greater potency 2009
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Brazilian pepper, a bushlike member of the poison-ivy family, is another imported ornamental infesting the Everglades.
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Twined around these shrubs and making their bid for light are wild grape, bittersweet, Virginia creeper, greenbrier, and poison-ivy.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989
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In addition to combing trees for beetle larvae and ants, these woodpeckers also eat the fruits of southern bayberry, magnolias, wild grape, poison-ivy, pokeberry, blueberry, cherries, blackgum, and pecan.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989
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Twined around these shrubs and making their bid for light are wild grape, bittersweet, Virginia creeper, greenbrier, and poison-ivy.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989
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Twined around these shrubs and making their bid for light are wild grape, bittersweet, Virginia creeper, greenbrier, and poison-ivy.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989
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In addition to combing trees for beetle larvae and ants, these woodpeckers also eat the fruits of southern bayberry, magnolias, wild grape, poison-ivy, pokeberry, blueberry, cherries, blackgum, and pecan.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989
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In addition to combing trees for beetle larvae and ants, these woodpeckers also eat the fruits of southern bayberry, magnolias, wild grape, poison-ivy, pokeberry, blueberry, cherries, blackgum, and pecan.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989
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But no man's character could be fragrant, so she thought, if it ripened amid the rich aroma of tobacco; and good old Virginia leaf was to her the poison-ivy of mankind.
St. Cuthbert's Robert E. Knowles
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Hill, poison-ivy berries near Big Flats, and sumach bobs on the road to
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