A weird plant or weed.

Pappy

Pappy

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Moved back to NY from Florida. 🤓 2025
The only place I've seen this weed is on the side of my nice white shed wall. It's like it has little feet and crawls up the wall. It sticks to the wall and has to be pulled off. It reminds me of a tree frog with the suction cup feet. It doesn't wash off either. It also a very growing weed.
 

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Pappy, looks like what we call Virginia Creeper (a weed), but your picture is too close up to tell for sure.

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Here it tends to grow where poison ivy grows. Just noticed that, too, in this picture. :p
 
Pappy, obviously we live in way different areas so probably different plant life. I don't know if your weed is what we had last year. There was an odd plant that grew in the flower bed by the garage. At this time of year that side gets overgrown. Then we just clear it out in the Fall. But this plant grew so fast and climbed the garage almost overnight. It also wrapped around cable wires and everything in it's path. Like you say little sucker cups, it pulled paint off if you tried to rip it.

Finally a drastic measure...it had gone all ropey and thick, the higher it went the worse it was. This is not a method I recommend but it worked for us...
Use sharp clippers all around the connecting branches
A screwdriver or long sharp object to try and loosen roots
Take rope and perhaps bungee cord and tie all around the biggest weed parts
Connect securely to a sturdy vehicle
Then slooooowwwwleeee back out...the weed should come down in one huge piece.
 
Pappy said:
The only place I've seen this weed is on the side of my nice white shed wall. It's like it has little feet and crawls up the wall. It sticks to the wall and has to be pulled off. It reminds me of a tree frog with the suction cup feet. It doesn't wash off either. It also a very growing weed.
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Pappy, I thought about you while trimming hedge and took a picture. This is part of the root system of a Virginia Creeper I pulled up yesterday. Paced it off at 20 feet long.

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Better nip yours it in the bud. :)
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Here, people actually plant it with a trellis as a decorative vine. But because of our climate-- desert -- it doesn't go nutso like it does back east and can be controlled. I have it on a big trellis and it's quite lovely and turns red in the fall every year. We'll take anything we can get to stay green!
 
I agree it's beautiful elsewhere perhaps. But when a weed wraps around cable wires, the electric meter, kills off decorative plants anywhere near it's path...Starts eyeing me cats...I am destroying that #%$&$%.
 
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