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mat, nas entwined itseii over tne steps and railings of the short stairs that lead up from the parking area to the dense shade of two great maples. Now, in late summer, I see Virginia Creeper — lush, bold and green — everywhere I go. This vine seems to ignore the drought.
The symmetric consistency of the five toothed leaflets, each originating at one point, is as pleasing to me as its name. Though Virginia Creeper occurs all over the eastern United States, Virginia was chosen to be honored in its common name.
This kind of leaflet arrangement, palmatelv compound, is not common in nature. I can think of only two other plants in which it occurs, the buckeye and horse chestnut.
Most plants with compound leaves display leaflets arranged either opposite or alternate each other along a single straight extension of the petiole. Botanists refer to it as pinnatelv compound, and one sees it in trees such as ashes, hickories, the Black Walnut, and the ubiquitours Tree-of-Heaven. It is also pre
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