Shrub/tree i.d.?

Anyone want to take a stab at this one? I pulled it out of my lilac hedge. It gets to about 8 feet tall, then falls and roots on the ground along its branches, and sends up new shoots from there. It likes the shade.





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Shrub/tree i.d.?
Here is what it is not: A green ash (a common tree) or Virginia creeper (a common groundcover or building vine).





A Virginia creeper, especially can thrive in full sun. And it has beautiful glossy, dark green leaves.





When I saw the berries and looked at the leaves and the stem, my first inclination was that it was some sort of dogwood.





Site on Maine trees: http://www.scarborough.k12.me.us/high/pr...





P.S. Nor is it poison ivy or poison oak.
Reply:Thanks, Harry. I got my info from a National Arbor Day pamphlet. The leaves and cluster of flowers look exactly like the one in the link. Cowgirl Report It

Reply:Flowering dogwood; see above. Report It

Reply:..................PLEASE READ......................


Apparently even the experts disagree on what the leaves look like......as in photos


I'm going with the Missouri Conservation





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Photo of poision oak


it has 5 tip/leaves yours looks lik 3 tip


http://www.flickr.com/photos/99991696@N0...


Poision ivy leaf photo


http://plants.usda.gov/java/largeImage?i...


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Below might be the best answer...........


.................Poision Ivy...........................


"Leaves of Three"


http://mdc.mo.gov/conmag/2005/03/50.htm


Poison ivy can be a woody shrub or a vine. As a shrub, it can grow about 6 feet high. As a vine, it can climb 40 feet up a tree.





The best way to distinguish poison ivy from other plants is to look at its leaves and tendrils.





......Poison oak also has three leaflets.


Each has a rounded tip and resembles an oak leaf. Unlike poison ivy, both sides of all three leaflets of poison oak have distinct notches.
Reply:It may be a flowering dogwood
Reply:Got me! Don't recognize it at all.
Reply:it looks like a vine called virginia creeper. especially if it has alot of runners --if it is it will turn reds and orange in the fall and drop its leaves.
Reply:Cornus alternifolia - Pagoda Dogwood, The rank growth is from competing with your lilac, if it was on it's own it would look more true to form. RScott