Sterling
Well-Known Member
Poison Ivy? About a week ago I posted a thread about a rash that I had gotten behind my ear ...which now I have gotten a few itchie spots just below my wrist and on the top on one of my hands......well just this evening while we were out playing with the pups, we come across behind the shed and sitting up just as happy as a clam is a bright beautiful healthy plant that looked to me to be Poison Ivy. But I did many searches and not one of the photos I see look like this plant out back. Lakota likes to nuzzle your neck and ears (I also had a couple of the rash bumps on my neck) so I thought maybe she had gotten into something and it stuck on her fur...well tonight I thought I found the culprit, until I started doing searches and came up with nothing that looks like this plant.
It is a low growing shrubby plant, with thorns as you can see. Very dark green, shiney and waxy. Looking at the poison ivy pics on the internet, they look different in color and size but I'm also thinking, could it be the area we're in that this plant may be some kind of poison too?
Anyway...I took a pic of it and if someone can help me to identify it I surely would appreciate it. I had no idea I could get a rash from a plant this time of year, because they were all suppose to be dried...until I saw this one that is!
It is a low growing shrubby plant, with thorns as you can see. Very dark green, shiney and waxy. Looking at the poison ivy pics on the internet, they look different in color and size but I'm also thinking, could it be the area we're in that this plant may be some kind of poison too?
Anyway...I took a pic of it and if someone can help me to identify it I surely would appreciate it. I had no idea I could get a rash from a plant this time of year, because they were all suppose to be dried...until I saw this one that is!