According to Valliere, people and pets should avoid coming in contact with several invasive plants in California, including: ...

• Poison oak, Toxicodendron diversilobum, with leaflets of three to five leaves, can be red, green or white. It is a deciduous native. • Stinging nettle, Urtica dioica, is a California native ...

A poison oak plant can have up to nine leaflets, although three leaflets are most common. The plants grow in sun and shade in mixed evergreen forests, woodlands, chaparral, and riparian areas.

— The California Poison Control System (CPCS) is warning residents about a huge poison oak growth in the state. According to CPCS, recent fires and heavy rains has caused an increase of poison oak.

Poison oak leaves appear in summer as vegetation in southern California's predominantly chaparral habitat on July 19, 2007 in the San Gabriel Mountains in California.

California’s poison oak problem will get much, much worse. Updated Dec 17, ... as temperatures rise in the state due to climate change, scientists expect the horrible plant to become even more ...

Poison oak is rampant throughout the mountains of Santa Barbara County as a result of the hot weather expected through the fall, and it can pose a serious threat particularly ...

Question: I thought I got a poison oak rash when I went camping, but I looked it up, and it doesn't grow in the area we went camping. I think the real culprit is a poison sumac plant growing in my ...

Aha, but 40 some years later, oh my, how things have changed. Today, poison oak is my natural world enemy No. 1. The next time you get a dose of poison oak and suffer the obsessive urge to scratch ...

Please don't eat poison oak. Here are 8 invasive plants in Texas that you can eat instead A reporter in Northern California couldn't avoid the poison oak surrounding his property, so he ate the ...