| Scientific Name: | Parthenocissus quinquefolia |
| Common Name: | Virginia creeper |
| Family Name: | Vitaceae |
| Origin: | Canada - eastern, Mexico, U.S. - northeast |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Vine - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 22 - 30m x 15 - 25m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading |
| Form: | Climbing |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Arbors or trellis, Fall interest, Filler, Screening, Wildlife food |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade, Deep shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Compound, Alternate, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Glabrous, Lustrous, Digitate (palmate), Elliptic, Obovate, Dentate, Serrate |
| Flowers: | Cyme, Green-yellow, Jun-Jul |
| Fruit: | Berry (true), Blue, Black, Aug-Sep, (Persistent) |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves alternate, palmately compound with 5 leaflets, ellipting-obovate, 4-14cm long x 2-8cm wide, margins serrate; tendrils arising opposite the petioles at nodes. Winter ID: dark blue berries; stems reddish; stem tendrils with adhesive pads at tips of 5-8 branches; leaf scars concave. | |