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§1 Plant

Toxicodendron radicans (L.) Kuntze ssp. radicans

vernacular eastern poison ivy — subspecies · Anacardiaceae


USDA
TORAR
GBIF
7221288
Rank
subspecies
eastern poison ivy (Toxicodendron radicans ssp. radicans)
Platephotograph · Sam Fraser-SmithCC BY source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb, Shrub, Subshrub, Vine
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Anacardiaceae R. Br.
Genus
Toxicodendron
§2a

Native status, by region

  • CAN Canada Native
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 605 counties across 25 states/territories
Legend Native · 605 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 605 counties across 25 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 67 N
Arkansas view state ↗ 1 N
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N
Florida view state ↗ 61 N
Georgia view state ↗ 58 N
Illinois view state ↗ 2 N
Indiana view state ↗ 81 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 7 N
Louisiana view state ↗ 2 N
Maine view state ↗ 5 N
Massachusetts view state ↗ 14 N
Michigan view state ↗ 1 N
Mississippi view state ↗ 54 N
New Hampshire view state ↗ 5 N
New Jersey view state ↗ 18 N
New York view state ↗ 34 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 57 N
Ohio view state ↗ 5 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 1 N
Rhode Island view state ↗ 3 N
South Carolina view state ↗ 15 N
Tennessee view state ↗ 7 N
Vermont view state ↗ 9 N
Virginia view state ↗ 96 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/TORAR ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/7221288 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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