Hello Gardeners, I’m Amanda McNulty with Clemson Extension and Making It Grow . Recently I noticed a red spot on my wrist which I attributed to an insect bite. Sadly, that was a misdiagnosis – turns out that in my summer mission to get unwanted vines and such out of established beds, I mistook a poison ivy vine for Virginia creeper and ended up with a bad outbreak on my arms. Both these native vines have hairy stems when mature and climbing on trees. The hairs are different – poison ivy has