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thank you!

While I agree with the identification, you should be very careful when pulling these plants as Poison Ivy is quite similar in appearance. I identify Virginia creeper as the one with 4 leaves and poison ivy as the one with three leaves.

You should always wear gloves when pulling weeds. If you do come in contact with Poison ivy wash the exposed area with soap and water, and rinse. Repeat a couple of more times and watch for rashes that depending on your sensitivity, will appear if one or two days.

Poison ivy has pretty red leaves in the fall it is a shame we have to remove it from our yards.

Virginia creeper typically has 5 leaflets (each leaf is comprised of 5 leaflets arrayed like a starfish) though young vines may have fewer or may even have the leaflets fused.

Both PI and VC have red leaves in autumn in my yard.

I think maybe you mean 5 leaves (not 4!!). The specific epithet quinquefolia means "5 leaved". Relatively easy to differentiate from poison ivy because of that fact :-) More likely to confuse juvenile Boston ivy, Parthenocissus tricuspidata, with poison ivy as both have leaves in three.

The 'jasmine' looks like Trachelospermum jasminoides to me, rather than Vinca. Aka Confederate Jasmine.

Thanks, floral. I was mostly judging from the plants at the back of the second photo, but I am more than willing to concede that Tyler and you are correct on that.

I find it easier to remove unwanted vines by:

Get a couple small jars, like baby jars, but anything will do. Punch small holes in the lids, large enough to feed the vine into, but not so large they'll pop out.

Put dilute glyphosate (or RoundUp, although that's actually got other stuff in it too) in there, about a quarter to a third normal concentration. Fill to about halfway.

Feed the vine and leaves in so that they're in the mix, and put the jar in the garden so it's not very visible to you. Let sit and check, refilling as necessary.

The vine will absorb the mix, and die back eventually as it absorbs a fatal dose (the reduced concentration is to avoid killing the leaves in the mix too quickly before the rest of the vine takes a killing amount, and also to avoid missing root systems that weren't active at the time of the initial absorption, which can happen with some things, and a trick I use with nutsedge as well).

It takes a while, but it's a good method for tougher stuff and requires minimal effort, although you do have to move the jars around to get all the different strands.

" I think maybe you mean 5 leaves (not 4!!). "

You are right I forgot to count my thumb ;-)

Virginia creeper typically has 5 leaflets (each leaf is comprised of 5 leaflets arrayed like a starfish)

Yes: what is being discussed here is leaflets of course, and not leaves - in this case each divided unit springing from the main stem and having a common basal stalk is a leaf.