It might be tempting to remove poison ivy in the winter when the plant is relatively dormant, but there are several reasons ...

Just the mention of the words “poison ivy” may have some of you itching already. The Johnson County Extension gardening hotline receives numerous requests for identification and control each summer.

If you were a Girl Scout or a Boy Scout, you probably heard the adage "leaves of three, let them be" to deter you from getting poison ivy rash. And, while it is true that a poison ivy leaf contains ...

Mason Heberling, associate curator of botany at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, holds a poison ivy specimen collected in Lehigh County, Pa. in 1840, the oldest used in the study. A new study ...

A few years ago I was leading a group of Merrimack College ecology students on a nature walk, when one of them pointed to a vine with five leaflets per leaf, and asked if it was poison ivy. “No,” I ...

Poison ivy usually grows as a vine, but can also take on a bushy form. It can grow anywhere and its appearance changes throughout the year, and it looks like dozens of innocent plants, such as ...

Skin irritation, redness, itching—you know the signs. If you’ve been out in the garden recently and have come away with a nasty rash, you may have gotten yourself into a patch of poison ivy. Poison ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) - At some point, most of us will either come into contact with poison ivy or know someone with the telltale rash. According to the CDC, roughly 90 percent of people exposed to the ...

Leaf diseases are off to a good start this season due to the cool, wet late spring. Disease-spotted leaves are a given on some plants any year around this time, but the cool, wet start to this growing ...

Can you give me some advice on poison ivy control — I’m very allergic. I know what it looks like. I need to get some information on how to get rid of it. — Jack Anyone cleaning out overgrown areas or ...