Parthenocissus quinquefolia(L.) Planch.

Virginia creeper

WFO wfo-0000474309 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC0 / CC BY In the accuracy benchmark

Plate 1 figs. a–g

Parthenocissus quinquefolia, photographed by Violet T.
fig. a Violet T., CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-10 / obs. 204974200
Parthenocissus quinquefolia, photographed by Annika Lindqvist
fig. b Annika Lindqvist, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205265107
Parthenocissus quinquefolia, photographed by Mark G
fig. c Mark G, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205563379
Parthenocissus quinquefolia, photographed by Glenn Berry
fig. d Glenn Berry, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204733730
Parthenocissus quinquefolia, photographed by Mila C.
fig. e Mila C., CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204628803
Parthenocissus quinquefolia, photographed by Joseph McPhail
fig. f Joseph McPhail, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204277073
Parthenocissus quinquefolia, photographed by Dilrukshan Priyantha Wijesinghe
fig. g Dilrukshan Priyantha Wijesinghe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204153059

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Flowering n = 160 observations

Peak flowering in Jul, from 160 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 87 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Ampelocissus cirrhata Voss
  • Ampelocissus major Voss
  • Ampelocissus serrata Voss
  • Ampelocissus tricolor Voss
  • Ampelopsis engelmannii (Koehne & Graebn.) Rehder
  • Ampelopsis graebneri Bolle
  • Ampelopsis hederacea DC.
  • Ampelopsis hederacea var. dumetorum Focke
  • Ampelopsis hederacea var. minor Schelle
  • Ampelopsis hederacea var. murorum Focke
  • Ampelopsis himalayana Dippel
  • Ampelopsis hirsuta (Pursh) Donn ex Schult.
  • Ampelopsis latifolia Tausch
  • Ampelopsis muralis Lengerken
  • Ampelopsis pubescens Schltdl.
  • Ampelopsis quinquefolia (L.) Michx.
  • Ampelopsis quinquefolia var. angustifolia Dippel
  • Ampelopsis quinquefolia var. dumetorum Rehder
  • Ampelopsis quinquefolia var. graebneri Rehder
  • Ampelopsis quinquefolia var. heptaphylla A.Gray
  • Ampelopsis quinquefolia var. hirsuta (Pursh) Torr. & A.Gray
  • Ampelopsis quinquefolia var. laciniata A.Gray
  • Ampelopsis quinquefolia var. latifolia Dippel
  • Ampelopsis quinquefolia var. murorum Rehder

and 63 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.