Description
Parthenocissus Virginia Creeper
Parthenocissus quinquefolia
- Zone:
Exposure: Part/Full Sun
Mature Size: 30-50ft H, 5-10ft W - Flower Colour: greenish-white
- Flowering Time: late spring to early summer
Description: Virginia Creeper is a vigorous, fast-growing, deciduous climber boasting compound-palmate leaves adorned with 5 ovate leaflets. Emerging bronze, purplish in spring, they mature to dull green in summer and change to brilliant shades of burgundy and crimson red in the fall. It is one of the earliest vines to colour in the fall. They give way to round, fleshy, blue-black berries, visible only after leaves have fallen and only if the birds have not gotten to them.
Ornamental Features: Drought Tolerant, Deer Resistant, Disease free,
Landscape Features: Used for walls, buildings, large trellises, arbors or fences, ground cover, erosion control on slopes
