Vascular Plants of North Carolina
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Account for Atlantic Ivy - Hedera hibernica   (K. Kirchner) Carriere
Members of Araliaceae:
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Author(K. Kirchner) Carriere
DistributionThere is one specimen so-named at SERNEC: Wake Co., along fence next to apartments, Daniels Street, Raleigh. 26 Oct 2008, T. Matthews F08-8 (ODU). There may be others, but most botanists have not recognized infraspecific taxa or splits from H. helix. BONAP maps it for NC without designating any county. Weakley (2018) does likewise for the NC Piedmont.

Native of Europe; in N.A. scattered on East and West Coast states.
AbundanceThe website editors are giving this exotics species a rank of SR (State Reported) for now.
HabitatUrban fencerow.
Phenology
IdentificationDiffers from H. helix sensu stricto by characters of the hairs and leaves -- see Weakley's (2018) key or the 2025 FNA key.
Taxonomic CommentsA synonym is H. helix var. hibernica.

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