Anyone cleaning out overgrown areas or even just weeding should beware. Poison ivy (Toxicodendron radicans) may be growing among the plants you are handling. It pays to be able to identify this plant, ...

For all the time I spend digging, planting, pulling and weeding, one would think I’d have some poison ivy horror stories to tell, but I do not. I can’t say for sure whether I’m immune to the rash that ...

How can you tell if poison ivy is growing in your yard? ? The telltale signs of the plant are compound leaves of three (although there can be more), red stems, and rounded or toothed lobed margins.

A fellow gardener recently asked me to stop "bad-mouthing" poison ivy (Rhus radicans). She had overheard me make some disparaging remarks about this native American plant. Her point was that it's a ...

For all the time I spend digging, planting, pulling and weeding, one would think I'd have some poison ivy horror stories to tell, but I do not. I can't say for sure whether I'm immune to the rash that ...