Not Toxicodendron radicans
Speeking (er, blogging) of poison ivy, a few months ago I posted a "Boxelder Revisit," showing a couple of early spring boxelder flowers. It turns out that I had never posted a "Boxelder Visit" (that I can find anyway). The story would have gone that while hacking down honeysuckle and such last fall, I was stopped in my tracks by the sight of a poison ivy vine on a small tree in the midst of the honeysuckle. Then I realized that there was no vine, and the tree itself was producing the leaves. Googling "poison ivy tree" immediately informed me that this was in fact a boxelder tree (Acer negundo), a type of maple.
