Vine · Vitaceae
Virginia creeper
Parthenocissus quinquefolia
Virginia creeper is recorded as native to 36 states and territories in Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS, and recorded in 1,491 counties of those states by USDA PLANTS.
Key facts · USDA PLANTS
Virginia creeper at a glance
- Native in
- 1,491 counties, across 36 states and territories
- Estimated cold hardiness
- Zone 4b PLANTS minimum temperature −28°F
- Mature height
- 1 ft PLANTS mature height
- Light and water
- Sun to part shade Low water use
Estimated cold hardiness: zone 4b. PLANTS gives a minimum temperature of −28°F; zone 4b winters bottom out at −25°F, the coldest half-zone that stays within that limit.
Virginia creeper is recorded as native to 36 states and territories in Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS, and recorded in 1,491 counties of those states by USDA PLANTS.
Counties where it is native
The 15 counties with the most ZIP codes among the 1,491 where it is listed.
Native counties by state
- Alabama 64 counties
- Arkansas 61 counties
- Connecticut statewide record
- Delaware 1 county
- District of Columbia 1 county
- Florida 50 counties
- Georgia 36 counties
- Illinois 102 counties
- Indiana 73 counties
- Iowa 9 counties
- Kansas 63 counties
- Kentucky 107 counties
- Louisiana 56 counties
- Maine 7 counties
- Massachusetts 14 counties
- Michigan 56 counties
- Minnesota 14 counties
- Mississippi 56 counties
- Missouri 112 counties
- Nebraska 9 counties
- New Hampshire 7 counties
- New Jersey 20 counties
- New York 40 counties
- North Carolina 60 counties
- Ohio 88 counties
- Oklahoma 31 counties
- Pennsylvania 63 counties
- Rhode Island 5 counties
- South Carolina 34 counties
- South Dakota 4 counties
- Tennessee 37 counties
- Texas 33 counties
- Vermont 7 counties
- Virginia 100 counties
- West Virginia 42 counties
- Wisconsin 29 counties
Growing traits
Values from the PLANTS characteristics record. “Not recorded” means PLANTS has no value; nothing here is estimated except the zone.
Growth
- Growth habit
- Vine
- Duration
- Perennial
- Mature height
- 1 ft
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Growth form
- Stoloniferous
- Shape
- Prostrate
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Active growth period
- Spring and Summer
Light and water
- Shade tolerance
- Intermediate (sun to part shade)
- Moisture use
- Low water use
- Drought tolerance
- High
- Tolerance of waterlogged soil
- None
- Precipitation range
- 32 to 60 in per year
Soil
- Soil textures
- Medium and fine
- pH range
- 5 to 7.5
- Lime (CaCO₃) tolerance
- Medium
- Salinity tolerance
- Medium
- Fertility requirement
- Low
- Minimum root depth
- 16 in
Climate
- Minimum temperature
- −28°F
- Estimated cold hardiness
- Zone 4b and warmer
- Minimum frost-free days
- 130
- Fire tolerance
- Low
Flowers, leaves and fruit
- Flower color
- Not recorded
- Showy flowers
- No
- Bloom period
- Late Spring
- Foliage color
- Green
- Showy in fall
- Yes
- Keeps leaves
- No
- Fruit color
- Blue
Other
- Toxicity
- None
- Nitrogen fixation
- None
- Nursery availability
- Routinely Available
- Family
- Vitaceae
- PLANTS symbol
- PAQU2
Source & data date
- Source
- USDA NRCS PLANTS Database: county distribution records, native status and plant characteristics. CC0 (public domain dedication, per the data.gov catalog record).
- Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP): native or introduced status by state. CC BY 3.0.
- USGS US-RIIS (ver. 2.0): species listed as introduced are excluded. CC0.
- Citation
- USDA, NRCS. 2026. The PLANTS Database (https://plants.usda.gov, 11/04/2026). National Plant Data Team, Greensboro, NC USA.
- Govaerts R. (ed.) (2026). WCVP: World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Data file dated 2026-06-04, http://sftp.kew.org/pub/data-repositories/WCVP/ (retrieved 2026-11-04). Paper: Govaerts R. et al. (2021) The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. Scientific Data 8, 215.
- Data date
- Retrieved from PLANTS on November 4, 2026; WCVP data file dated June 4, 2026.
- Scope
- Parthenocissus quinquefolia (PLANTS symbol PAQU2).
- Method
- A species is listed when it is recorded as native to the state in Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS, and recorded in the county by USDA PLANTS. Species PLANTS labels both native and introduced are listed separately. Full method · All sources