Common Name: Virginia creeper, woodbine parthenocissusScientific Name: Parthenocissus quinquefolia (L.) Planch.Family Name: Vitaceae - Grape FamilyIdentification NotesLife Cyclenative perennial, reproducing by seed Stemswoody vine, groundcover or climbing by branched tendrils with adhesive disks on ends, tendrils opposite leaf, new growth green becoming gray-brown with age, lenticels present, orange-brown aerial roots common Leavesalternate, palmately compound, leaflets five sometimes seven and egg-shaped, long petioled, margins coarsely toothed mostly above the middle, dark green above and light below, bright red in fall Flowersgreen, small and inconspicuous; terminal and upper axillary clusters, long-stemmed clusters Fruitberry, round, green becoming blue-black, cluster branches green becoming orange-red to red at maturity