Field guide
Plants, fungi, and wildlife
Dillsboro and the Laughery Creek hills. Bundled on the device — works with no signal.
AllTree or woody shrubFlower, weed, or herbVineMushroomMammalBirdSnake, turtle, or frogTick, spider, or insectFish
4 plates
Poison ivy
Toxicodendron radicans
Three leaflets, urushiol oil. The plant that hospitalizes more Hoosiers than any snake.
IrritantDo not eat
Virginia creeper
Parthenocissus quinquefolia
Five leaflets from one point. Harmless lookalike of poison ivy.
CautionDo not eat
Canada moonseed
Menispermum canadense
Grape lookalike with no tendrils and a crescent seed. Fruit is poisonous.
ToxicDo not eat
Wild grape
Vitis riparia / V. aestivalis
True grapes: peeling bark, forked tendrils, several pear-shaped seeds.
Low riskEdible when ripe
Categories: Trees · Shrubs · Wildflowers · Vines · Ferns · Mushrooms · Mammals · Birds · Reptiles · Amphibians · Ticks & spiders · Insects · Fish