Yale University Herbarium Specimen Observations (Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History:YU:Observations)
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Hedera helix L.
Araliaceae
Lucy Partman
LHP8
2012-09-29
United States, Connecticut, Yale University Campus, Yale School of Music Parking Lot
41.30968 -72.92617 +-2m. WGS84
Fenced area near building, in parking lot, soil plot
Adult evergreen shrub-like plant; dark green leaves with white veins, alternate, simple, unlobed, cordate; juvenile vine-like form can be seen closer to ground with 3- to 5-lobed leaves.
Flowering
Small greenish-yellow flowers in umbel show from late summer to late fall; purple-black to orange-yellow berries ripen in late winter; invasive tendency.; Cultivated or Captive