Parthenocissus quinquefolia (Virginia Creeper)

Parthenocissus quinquefolia (Virginia Creeper) is a vigorous, fast-growing, deciduous climber boasting compound-palmate leaves adorned with 5 ovate leaflets. Emerging bronze, purplish in spring, they mature to dull green in summer and change to brilliant shades of burgundy and crimson red in the fall. It is one of the earliest vines to color in the fall. Usually hidden by the foliage, greenish-white flowers appear in the upper leaf axils in late spring to early summer. They give way to round, fleshy, blue-black berries, visible only after the leaves have fallen, and only if the birds have not devoured them.