My friend moved to a place with a neglected yard. An awe inspiring invasive vine is blanketing everything growing. I had to look closely to see the hazelnut and other native plants under the vine. It has spread to the lower limbs of a nearby fir tree and seems to be rampant. It may have started in the raised bed, now full of weeds. The leaves are big with rounded edges like a grape leaf, not pointy fingerlike. It has lots of culy tendrils. It does not grow from a stalk or trunk. The flowers are tiny white star shaped. Not in big clusters. The seed pods are green with spines. About the size of a lemon wit no obvious seam. When ripe, the pods turn brown, open with 4 or 6 (not sure) chestnut like seeds.There is a thin lacey membrane. This plant somehow gives me the creeps. I have pictures to show, first I have to figure out how to get them from my phone to the computer. As soon as I figure it out, I will post the pictures.
Do the instructions help in this thread on How to Attach Photos and other files - comments re mobile uploads (specifically the second posting)?
Does that mean alleysnoop has to like it? He or she will have to stop calling it invasive, though. Maybe just creepy, rampant and ill-mannered. Or make it a feature.
A plant can be both invasive and native, depending on how one defines the term. For this instance, I would say that it is an aggressive native plant. Invasive would imply it is rapidly colonizing the local area and displacing locally-native plants.
Individuals grow large but tend not to be very numerous. An interesting curiosity not like any other native plant.
