Hedera
Genus of flowering plants in the family Araliaceae / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dear Wikiwand AI, let's keep it short by simply answering these key questions:
Can you list the top facts and stats about Hedera?
Summarize this article for a 10 year old
SHOW ALL QUESTIONS
This article is about plants in the family Araliaceae. For the typographic ornamentation ❧, see Fleuron (typography). For Hedera Hashgraph, see Hashgraph.
"Ivy" redirects here. For other plants, see list of plants known as ivy. For other uses, see Ivy (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Hadera.
Hedera, commonly called ivy (plural ivies), is a genus of 12–15 species of evergreen climbing or ground-creeping woody plants in the family Araliaceae, native to Western Europe, Central Europe, Southern Europe, Macaronesia, northwestern Africa and across central-southern Asia east to Japan and Taiwan. Several species are cultivated as climbing ornamentals, and the name ivy especially denotes common ivy (Hedera helix), known in North America as "English ivy", which is frequently planted to clothe brick walls.
Quick Facts Hedera, Scientific classification ...
Hedera | |
---|---|
Hedera algeriensis in Lincoln Park Conservatory, Chicago | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Apiales |
Family: | Araliaceae |
Subfamily: | Aralioideae |
Genus: | Hedera L. |
Species | |
See text | |
Synonyms[1] | |
|
Close