Parthenocissus quinquefolia, (L.) Planchon

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1981, Flora Europaea. Volume 2. Rosaceae to Umbelliferae, Cambridge University Press : 247

1. P. quinquefolia (L.) Planchon in A. & C. DC., Monogr. Phan. 5: 448 (1887).

Stems up to 30 m, climbing and trailing. Leaves digitate; leaflets (3—)5(—7), 5-10 cm, obovate-elliptical, coarsely and obtusely serrate, dull and somewhat glaucous beneath. Tendrils mostly with 5-8 branches, each of which develops, on touching a solid support, a terminal, adhesive disc. Flowers in terminal and leaf-opposed, more or less thyrsoid panicles with several lateral branches. Petals c. 3 mm, deflexed, green. Fruit c. 6 mm, globose, with 2-3 seeds. Formerly widely cultivated for ornament; now largely replaced in some countries by 2 and 3, but naturalized locally in C. Europe and Britain. [Au Br Ge He Ho.] (£. part of U.S.A.)