Common ivy
Hedera helix L.
- light
- Any light
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 10.0 m
- wide
- 3.2 m
Araliaceae
Also called English ivy, Common Ivy
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- ClimberKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Europe, Medit. to IranKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Sun or shadeRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 8.0 m to 12 mRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS 8–12 m; NC State Extension 20–80.5 ft
- Spread
- 2.5 m to 4.0 mRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS 2.5–4 m; NC State Extension 3–50 ft
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- Yellow, greenRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Coldest it survives
- -24.7 °C (USDA zone 5b)Read from RHS and NC State Extension, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: RHS -15 °C; NC State Extension -34.4 °C
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Dutch
- klimop, Bonte klimop
- Spanish
- Hiedra euroasiática, hiedra, hiedra terrestre
- Catalan
- heura
- German
- Efeu
- Italian
- edera comune
- French
- lierre d'Europe
- Hebrew
- קיסוס החורש
- Polish
- bluszcz pospolity
- Portuguese
- hera
- Czech
- břečťan popínavý
- Estonian
- harilik luuderohi
- Danish
- Vedbend
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Hedera helix (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.