| Scientific Name: | Hedera helix |
| Common Name: | English ivy |
| Family Name: | Araliaceae |
| Origin: | Europe, Garden origin |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Broadleaf evergreen, Ground cover, Indoor foliage plant, Invasive plant, Vine or climber |
| Mature Size: | 5 - 7m x 3 - 4m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Dense, Spreading |
| Form: | Climbing, Creeping / Mat-like, Mounded |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Arbors or trellis, Attract beneficial insects, Attract birds, Container planting, Erosion control, Filler, Ground cover, Group or mass planting, Indoor plant, Rock garden, Winter interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade, Deep shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Lobed, Alternate, Leathery, Pinnate venation, Palmate venation, Lustrous, Pubescent, Elliptic, Ovate, Entire, Pinnately lobed |
| Flowers: | Umbel, Green-yellow, Sep-Oct |
| Fruit: | Drupe, Black, Mar-Apr |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Invasive evergreen ground cover or climber that freely roots at leaf nodes; leaves alternate, mostly ovate (some almost triangular), most blades 6-10cm wide x 3-7cm wide, glossy; juvenile foliage 3-5 lobed; matue foliage unlobed, dark green (cultivars variegated mid-green/silver-gray variegation/white margins); flowers tiny, 5-lobed in yellow-green umbel clusters in fall; black drupes ripening in spring, about 7mm wide. | |