Just the mention of the words “poison ivy” may have some of you itching already. The Johnson County Extension gardening hotline receives numerous requests for identification and control each summer.

A few years ago I was leading a group of Merrimack College ecology students on a nature walk, when one of them pointed to a vine with five leaflets per leaf, and asked if it was poison ivy. “No,” I ...

If you were a Girl Scout or a Boy Scout, you probably heard the adage "leaves of three, let them be" to deter you from getting poison ivy rash. And, while it is true that a poison ivy leaf contains ...

Mason Heberling, associate curator of botany at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, holds a poison ivy specimen collected in Lehigh County, Pa. in 1840, the oldest used in the study. A new study ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Poison ivy will turn crimson during the fall season. So, enjoy the vibrant display, but avoid the urge to touch. Some people are ...

Every gardener should know how to get rid of poison ivy when it pops up around the yard. If the sap from this plant comes in contact with your skin, a chemical called urushiol in the sap can cause ...

Think you might have been exposed to poison ivy? Here's how to identify it, as well as how to treat it, according to health ...

It is a great time of the year to be outside watching the leaves turn color a little bit each day even though the fall color season is late this year compared to recent years. Collecting those leaves ...

Poison ivy has a compound leaf made up of 3 leaflets which can be 1 to 4 inches long. The middle leaflet is the only one with a long stalk. Courtesy Johnson County Extension Just the mention of the ...