While brush killer works during all growing season, the best results could be achieved if applied on a dry sunny days during the periods of plant's ACTIVE growth. For wintercreeper it should be anytime from April till August, I guess.

'other plant murder methods?'
Napalm!

Thanks George, how about organic ideas?

brush killer... as an evergreen, isn't it growing a little all the time?

what's the difference between "best" results and alive? Is there a grey area? comatose? LOL

And, after it dies, will it still pull up via roots or just top layer of stems?? I guess I really don't care if roots stay in the ground or not. As long as they are dead.

Has anyone ever tackled something like this?

No suggestions, I'm afraid. It's such a shame this is so aggressive, it's a really pretty groundcover. I see a lot of it in more urban settings, where it can't get away into woods, and thought about planting it myself but chose vinca instead. I know some people find *that* invasive too, though I don't think it's likely to get away from me in my yard.

The houses across the street from me back into a very steeply sloped wooded area, it's probably about 30 yards deep before hitting the back yards of the street below. I recently stood on the edge of those woods trying to call for a missing pet, and was surprised to see how much Boston ivy there was spreading into the floor of the woods. It was an eye opener for me to see how a "nice groundcover" can get away if the conditions are right. Those same woods were also full of bittersweet and poison ivy. Fortunately my cat turned up after spending a week in someone's basement, so I didn't have to try to crawl through the woods!

Wendy,
Great Minds and all that...currently I am ripping out my berm/garbage pile of invasives. I did have to nuke the poison ivy and bitter sweet but that still left me with plenty of other invasives to pull. I am a pretty confident composter and take great pride when my pile stays up around 150 degrees, but I am no where near confident enough to throw these into my pile so off to the dump I go. Do your arrangements for garbage include yard waste? I don't know much about euyonmyous coloratus fortunei but would putting the plant through your shredder cause it to produce thousands more plants or be the final straw for sustaining life? I know dtd uses absence of light as her method of ridding her property of un-wanted plants and she has commented that it can take a number of years for this to happen. kt