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mitten-ish outline. the plant can be found just about anywhere, but is particularly common in forest gaps, old fields, riparian locations, and back dunes along the great lakes. seedlings of box elder (acer negundo) can look very similar to poison ivy in its shrub-like form, but have opposite, rather than
alternating, leaves of three. most people are allergic to the oils in the poison ivy plant, but other animals appear to be unaffected, and the flowers and berries produced by the plant help sustain a wide variety of birds and insects, while the leaves are sometimes consumed by mammals. in the upper...
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